85R4850 JRJ-D
By: Clardy H.B. No. 832
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to state funding for baccalaureate degree programs offered
at certain public junior colleges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.0012(b-1), Education Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b-1) The coordinating board shall authorize [establish a
pilot project to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of
authorizing] baccalaureate degree programs in the field of dental
hygiene at a public junior college that offers a degree program in
that field, has a main campus located in the county seat of a county
with a population greater than 200,000, and includes territory in
at least six public school districts located in two counties.
Subsection (g) applies [does not apply] to junior-level and
senior-level courses offered under this subsection. [In its
recommendations to the legislature relating to state funding for
public junior colleges, the coordinating board shall recommend that
junior-level and senior-level courses offered under this
subsection by a public junior college receive the same state
support as other courses offered by the public junior college.]
SECTION 2. Sections 130.0012(b-2) and (b-3), Education
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
130.0012(b-1), Education Code, apply beginning with funding
recommendations made under Section 130.0012, Education Code, for
the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2019.
SECTION 4. 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, 2017.