83R9490 JRJ-D
By: Bonnen of Brazoria H.B. No. 1974
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain duties of public junior colleges and the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board in relation to baccalaureate
degree programs offered by public junior colleges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.0012(f), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(f) Each public junior college that offers a baccalaureate
degree program under this section must enter into an articulation
agreement for the first five years of the program with one or more
general academic teaching institutions to ensure that students
enrolled in the degree program have an opportunity to complete the
degree if the public junior college ceases to offer the degree
program. The coordinating board may require a general academic
teaching institution that offers a comparable degree program to
enter into an articulation agreement with the public junior college
as provided by this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.