| 1 | 1 | | By: Seliger, et al. S.B. No. 498 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Guillen, Branch, Alonzo, Munoz, Jr.) |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to applying credit earned by a student at a general |
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| 8 | 8 | | academic teaching institution to an associate's degree at a |
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| 9 | 9 | | lower-division institution of higher education previously attended |
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| 10 | 10 | | by the student. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 61.833, Education Code, |
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| 13 | 13 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (b) This section applies to a student enrolled in a general |
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| 15 | 15 | | academic teaching institution who: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) transferred to the institution from or previously |
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| 17 | 17 | | attended a lower-division institution of higher education; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (2) earned at least 30 credit hours for course work |
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| 19 | 19 | | successfully completed at the lower-division institution of higher |
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| 20 | 20 | | education; and |
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| 21 | 21 | | (3) has earned a cumulative total of at least 66 [90] |
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| 22 | 22 | | credit hours for course work successfully completed. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Subsection |
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| 24 | 24 | | (b), Section 61.833, Education Code, applies beginning with the |
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| 25 | 25 | | 2013 fall semester. A semester or other academic term before the |
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| 26 | 26 | | 2013 fall semester is covered by the applicable law as it existed |
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| 27 | 27 | | before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is |
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| 28 | 28 | | continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 30 | 30 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 31 | 31 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 32 | 32 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 33 | 33 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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