By: Pacheco, Cortez, Allison, Gervin-Hawkins, H.B. No. 4165
Minjarez, et al.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer
baccalaureate degree programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.306, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read
as follows:
(b) Except as otherwise provided by this section
[Subsection (a)], a public junior college offering a baccalaureate
degree program under this subchapter may not offer more than three
baccalaureate degree programs at any time.
(d) A public junior college offering a baccalaureate degree
program under this subchapter that is located in a county with a
population of more than 1,700,000 based on United States Census
2010 data and that is located within 180 miles of the Texas-Mexico
border may not offer more than five baccalaureate degree programs
at any time.
(e) At any time, South Texas College may not offer more than
six baccalaureate degree programs under this subchapter.
SECTION 2. 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, 2019.