| 1 | 1 | | By: Johnson of Harris H.B. No. 1705 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to curriculum requirements in American history at |
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| 7 | 7 | | institutions of higher education. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 10 | 10 | | read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or |
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| 12 | 12 | | university receiving state support or state aid from public funds |
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| 13 | 13 | | may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic |
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| 14 | 14 | | certificate to any person unless the person has credit for six |
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| 15 | 15 | | semester hours or its equivalent in American history [History]. A |
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| 16 | 16 | | student must [is entitled to] submit [as much as] three semester |
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| 17 | 17 | | hours of credit or its equivalent from a course providing a |
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| 18 | 18 | | comprehensive survey of American history or [in] Texas history |
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| 19 | 19 | | [History] in partial satisfaction of this requirement. The |
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| 20 | 20 | | remaining three semester hours of credit or its equivalent may be |
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| 21 | 21 | | satisfied by credit from any American history or Texas history |
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| 22 | 22 | | course. The college or university may determine that a student has |
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| 23 | 23 | | satisfied this requirement in whole or part on the basis of credit |
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| 24 | 24 | | granted to the student by the college or university for a |
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| 25 | 25 | | substantially equivalent course completed at another accredited |
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| 26 | 26 | | college or university, or on the basis of the student's successful |
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| 27 | 27 | | completion of an advanced standing examination administered on the |
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| 28 | 28 | | conditions and under the circumstances common for the college or |
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| 29 | 29 | | university's advanced standing examinations. The college or |
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| 30 | 30 | | university may grant as much as three semester hours of credit or |
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| 31 | 31 | | its equivalent toward satisfaction of this requirement for |
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| 32 | 32 | | substantially equivalent work completed by a student in the program |
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| 33 | 33 | | of an approved senior R.O.T.C. unit. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to |
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| 35 | 35 | | the curriculum requirements established for a degree or certificate |
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| 36 | 36 | | program offered by an institution of higher education beginning |
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| 37 | 37 | | with undergraduate students who initially enroll in the institution |
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| 38 | 38 | | for the 2018 fall semester. |
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| 39 | 39 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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