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1		-	H.B. No. 4361
	1	+	By: Raney, Parker (Senate Sponsor - Bettencourt) H.B. No. 4361
	2	+	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 2021;
	3	+	May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
	4	+	Education; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:
	5	+	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.)
	6	+	Click here to see the committee vote
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	9	+	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
4	10		AN ACT
5	11		relating to off-campus workforce education or lower-division
6	12		programs offered by a public institution of higher education at the
7	13		request of an employer.
8	14		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	15		SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
10	16		amended by adding Section 51.981 to read as follows:
11	17		Sec. 51.981. OFF-CAMPUS WORKFORCE EDUCATION OR
12	18		LOWER-DIVISION PROGRAMS REQUESTED BY EMPLOYERS. An institution of
13	19		higher education may enter into an agreement with an employer to
14	20		provide a credit or noncredit off-campus workforce education or
15	21		lower-division program to the institution's students at a site
16	22		requested by the employer without the approval of a higher
17	23		education regional council established under Subchapter N,
18	24		regardless of whether the site at which the program would be offered
19	25		is located within the institution's uniform state service region
20	26		or, if the institution is a public junior college, within the junior
21	27		college district's service area, if:
22	28		(1) the employer has solicited an agreement to offer
23	29		the program at that site with another institution of higher
24	30		education that offers the same or substantially equivalent
25	31		coursework as that requested by the employer;
26	32		(2) the proposed site for the off-campus program is
27	33		located within the uniform state service region in which the
28	34		institution described by Subdivision (1) is located or, if the
29	35		institution is a public junior college, within the junior college
30	36		district's service area; and
31	37		(3) the institution of higher education described by
32	38		Subdivision (1) does not finalize an offer to enter into an
33	39		agreement with the employer that meets the employer's
34	40		specifications for the off-campus program within six weeks after
35	41		the employer's initial written solicitation requesting the
36	42		institution to offer the program.
37	43		SECTION 2. Section 51.981, Education Code, as added by this
38	44		Act, applies beginning with the 2021-2022 academic year.
39	45		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
40	46		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
41	47		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
42	48		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
43	49		Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
44		-	______________________________ ______________________________
45		-	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
46		-	I certify that H.B. No. 4361 was passed by the House on May
47		-	14, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
48		-	voting.
49		-	______________________________
50		-	Chief Clerk of the House
51		-	I certify that H.B. No. 4361 was passed by the Senate on May
52		-	24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
53		-	______________________________
54		-	Secretary of the Senate
55		-	APPROVED: _____________________
56		-	Date
57		-	_____________________
58		-	Governor
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