| 1 | 1 | | 87R9500 CXP-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Capriglione H.B. No. 3709 |
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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 curriculum requirements in American and Texas history |
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| 8 | 8 | | at institutions of higher education. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 11 | 11 | | read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or |
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| 13 | 13 | | university receiving state support or state aid from public funds |
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| 14 | 14 | | may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic |
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| 15 | 15 | | certificate to any person unless the person has credit for six |
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| 16 | 16 | | semester hours or its equivalent from survey courses in American |
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| 17 | 17 | | History. A student is entitled to submit as much as three semester |
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| 18 | 18 | | hours of credit or its equivalent from survey courses in Texas |
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| 19 | 19 | | History in partial satisfaction of this requirement. The college |
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| 20 | 20 | | or university may determine that a student has satisfied this |
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| 21 | 21 | | requirement in whole or part on the basis of credit granted to the |
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| 22 | 22 | | student by the college or university for a substantially equivalent |
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| 23 | 23 | | survey course completed at another accredited college or |
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| 24 | 24 | | university, or on the basis of the student's successful completion |
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| 25 | 25 | | of an advanced standing examination administered on the conditions |
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| 26 | 26 | | and under the circumstances common for the college or university's |
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| 27 | 27 | | advanced standing examinations. The college or university may |
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| 28 | 28 | | grant as much as three semester hours of credit or its equivalent |
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| 29 | 29 | | toward satisfaction of this requirement for substantially |
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| 30 | 30 | | equivalent work completed by a student in the program of an approved |
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| 31 | 31 | | senior R.O.T.C. unit. |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to |
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| 33 | 33 | | the curriculum requirements established for a degree or certificate |
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| 34 | 34 | | program offered by an institution of higher education beginning |
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| 35 | 35 | | with undergraduate students who initially enroll in the institution |
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| 36 | 36 | | for the 2022 fall semester. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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