By: West S.B. No. 1963
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2021; April 1, 2021, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
April 19, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 19, 2021,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1963 By: Zaffirini
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a transferability report card for certain public
institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.96854 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.96854. TRANSFERABILITY REPORT CARD. (a) In this
section:
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
(2) "General academic teaching institution" and
"public state college" have the meanings assigned by Section
61.003.
(b) Not later than March 1 of each year, a general academic
teaching institution other than a public state college shall post
on the institution's Internet website a transferability report card
that indicates for the preceding academic year:
(1) the total number of semester credit hours or the
equivalent for which undergraduate students transferring to the
institution applied for transfer credit; and
(2) the percentage of the semester credit hours or the
equivalent described by Subdivision (1) for which students received
transfer credit.
(c) The coordinating board, in consultation with general
academic teaching institutions to which Subsection (b) applies,
shall develop a model transferability report card for use under
Subsection (b).
(d) Not later than April 1 of each year, the coordinating
board shall post on the coordinating board's Internet website a
list stating the transferability percentage described by
Subsection (b)(2) of each general academic teaching institution
other than a public state college.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
develop the model transferability report card required under
Section 51.96854(c), Education Code, as added by this Act.
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than March 1, 2023, each public
institution of higher education to which Section 51.96854(b),
Education Code, as added by this Act, applies shall post on the
institution's Internet website the initial transferability report
card required under that subsection.
(b) Not later than April 1, 2023, the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board shall post on the board's Internet website the
initial list required under Section 51.96854(d), Education Code, as
added by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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