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1		-	84R14438 JRJ-D
2	1		By: Giddings, Koop, Anchia, H.B. No. 3836
3	2		Anderson of Dallas, Meyer, et al.
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6	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	6		AN ACT
8	7		relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education
9	8		Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer
10	9		early childhood education baccalaureate degree programs.
11	10		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	11		SECTION 1. Section 130.0012, Education Code, is amended by
13	12		adding Subsections (b-1), (b-2), and (g-1) and amending Subsection
14	13		(g) to read as follows:
15	14		(b-1) The coordinating board shall authorize a
16	15		baccalaureate degree program in early childhood education at each
17		-	public junior college located in a county with a population of
18		-	greater than one million if:
19		-	(1) the county has a demonstrated initial need for at
20		-	least 3,000 early childhood educators;
	16	+	public junior college located in a county with a population of 2.2
	17	+	million or more and adjacent to a county with a population of more
	18	+	than 600,000 if:
	19	+	(1) the county in which the public junior college is
	20	+	located has a demonstrated initial need for at least 3,000 early
	21	+	childhood educators;
21	22		(2) the degree program curriculum is approved by the
22	23		independent school districts located in the county that
23	24		collectively represent at least 51 percent of the student
24	25		population enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade; and
25	26		(3) one of the following:
26	27		(A) before November 1, 2015, a regional public
27		-	university located in the county or an immediately adjacent county
28		-	is unable to obtain the approval of the independent school
29		-	districts located in the county that collectively represent at
30		-	least 51 percent of the student population enrolled in kindergarten
31		-	through 12th grade for a detailed plan to:
	28	+	university located in the county in which the public junior college
	29	+	is located or an immediately adjacent county is unable to obtain the
	30	+	approval of the independent school districts located in the county
	31	+	in which the public junior college is located that collectively
	32	+	represent at least 51 percent of the student population enrolled in
	33	+	kindergarten through 12th grade for a detailed plan to:
32	34		(i) expand degree output of early childhood
33	35		and elementary certified teachers to collectively meet the
34	36		three-year average hiring demands of the independent school
35		-	districts located in the county ~~and immediately adjacent counties,~~
36		-	including producing ~~more prekindergarten teachers to support the~~
37		-	planned increases in ~~prekindergarten enrollment for all public~~
38		-	schools;
	37	+	districts located in the county in which the public junior college
	38	+	is located and immediately adjacent counties, including producing
	39	+	more prekindergarten teachers to support the planned increases in
	40	+	prekindergarten enrollment for all public schools;
39	41		(ii) implement an early childhood education
40	42		curriculum; and
41	43		(iii) fund the expansion of current or
42	44		development of new early childhood education programs, which does
43	45		not include state funding for new facilities; or
44	46		(B) before September 1, 2017, a regional public
45	47		university that received the approval of independent school
46	48		districts as described by Paragraph (A) is unable to demonstrate:
47	49		(i) the necessary current student
48	50		enrollment to produce sufficient early childhood and elementary
49	51		certified teachers within the next four years to meet the existing
50	52		hiring demands of the independent school districts located in the
51		-	county and immediately adjacent counties based on historical
52		-	three-year averages, including producing more prekindergarten
53		-	teachers to support the planned increases in prekindergarten
54		-	enrollment for all public schools; and
	53	+	county in which the public junior college is located and
	54	+	immediately adjacent counties based on historical three-year
	55	+	averages, including producing more prekindergarten teachers to
	56	+	support the planned increases in prekindergarten enrollment for all
	57	+	public schools; and
55	58		(ii) implementation of an early childhood
56	59		education curriculum meeting the expressed needs of the independent
57		-	school districts located in the county that collectively represent
58		-	at least 51 percent of the student population enrolled in
59		-	kindergarten through 12th grade.
	60	+	school districts located in the county in which the public junior
	61	+	college is located that collectively represent at least 51 percent
	62	+	of the student population enrolled in kindergarten through 12th
	63	+	grade.
60	64		(b-2) The coordinating board may not subsequently terminate
61	65		authorization to offer an early childhood baccalaureate degree
62	66		program granted under Subsection (b-1) on the ground that
63	67		implementation of the degree program reduces the workforce need to
64	68		a level that is below the minimal threshold specified in Subsection
65	69		(b-1)(1).
66	70		(g) Except as provided by Subsection (g-1), in [In] its
67	71		recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding for
68	72		public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that
69	73		a public junior college receive substantially the same state
70	74		support for junior-level and senior-level courses offered under
71	75		this section as that provided to a general academic teaching
72	76		institution for substantially similar courses. In determining the
73	77		contact hours attributable to students enrolled in a junior-level
74	78		or senior-level course offered under this section used to determine
75	79		a public junior college's proportionate share of state
76	80		appropriations under Section 130.003, the coordinating board shall
77	81		weigh those contact hours as necessary to provide the junior
78	82		college the appropriate level of state support to the extent state
79		-	funds for those courses are included in the appropriations. This
	83	+	funds for those courses are included in the appropriations.
	84	+	This
80	85		subsection does not prohibit the legislature from directly
81	86		appropriating state funds to support junior-level and senior-level
82	87		courses offered under this section.
83	88		(g-1) A degree program created under Subsection (b-1) may be
84	89		funded only by a public junior college's proportionate share of
85	90		state appropriations under Section 130.003, local funds, and
86	91		private sources. This subsection does not require the legislature
87	92		to appropriate state funds to support a degree program created
88	93		under Subsection (b-1).
89	94		SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.