83R7672 AED-D
By: Patrick S.B. No. 1128
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to curriculum requirements in American and Texas history
at institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or
university receiving state support or state aid from public funds
may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic
certificate to any person unless the person has credit for six
semester hours or its equivalent from courses providing a
comprehensive survey of [in] American History. A student is
entitled to submit as much as three semester hours of credit or its
equivalent from courses providing a comprehensive survey of [in]
Texas History in partial satisfaction of this requirement. The
college or university may determine that a student has satisfied
this requirement in whole or part on the basis of credit granted to
the student by the college or university for a substantially
equivalent survey course completed at another accredited college or
university, or on the basis of the student's successful completion
of an advanced standing examination administered on the conditions
and under the circumstances common for the college or university's
advanced standing examinations. The college or university may
grant as much as three semester hours of credit or its equivalent
toward satisfaction of this requirement for substantially
equivalent work completed by a student in the program of an approved
senior R.O.T.C. unit.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
the curriculum requirements established for a degree or certificate
program offered by an institution of higher education beginning
with undergraduate students who initially enroll in the institution
for the 2014 fall semester.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.