Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

Texas House Bill HB2448 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Guillen H.B. No. 2448
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to creating a framework for including certain credentials
7	7	of value offered by general academic teaching institutions as part
8	8	of a baccalaureate degree program.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
11	11	amended to read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 61.003. DEFINITIONS.
13	13	(17) "Credential of value" means an industry
14	14	recognized work-based learning credential in a high growth, high
15	15	demand industry.
16	16	SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
17	17	amended by adding Section 61.05124 to read as follows:
18	18	Sec. 61.05124. ENCOURAGEMENT FOR COLLABORATION BETWEEN
19	19	GENERAL ACADEMIC UNIVERSITIES, PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES,
20	20	RECOGNIZED ACCREDITING AGENCIES, AND PUBLIC TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS
21	21	THAT OFFER CREDENTIALS OF VALUE. a) The board shall encourage:
22	22	1) Credentials of value as part of a general academic
23	23	university degree plan.
24	24	2) Memorandums of understanding between general
25	25	academic universities and, public technical institutions that
26	26	offer credentials of value.
27	27	3) Transferability of credits, particularly of course
28	28	yielding credentials of value.
29	29	4) Development of multi-institutional degree plans.
30	30	5) Creation of a frictionless financial aid process
31	31	that would allow for grants, scholarships, and all other forms of
32	32	financial aid to be applicable to the earning of credentials of
33	33	value.
34	34	b) the board shall award the designation of a Successful
35	35	Outcomes distinction for general academic universities that have at
36	36	least 8% of the graduating class of each academic year graduate with
37	37	at least one credential of value.
38	38	SECTION 3. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
39	39	amended by adding Section 61.05125 to read as follows:
40	40	Sec. 61.05125. CREATION AND OBLIGATIONS OF A
41	41	MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL TASKFORCE. a) The Board shall create a
42	42	taskforce consisting of at least one representative from A K-12
43	43	school district, a recognized accrediting entity, one
44	44	representative from a general academic university, one
45	45	representative from the Texas Workforce Commission, one
46	46	representative from a public community college, and one
47	47	representative from a public technical college.
48	48	b) The taskforce shall work together to develop a framework
49	49	for:
50	50	1) Integrated multi institutional degree plans which
51	51	are fully accredited.
52	52	2) The initiation of said degree plans at the k-12
53	53	level.
54	54	3) Each student earning at least 2 credentials of
55	55	value in their four year degree plan.
56	56	4) Graduation with at least 2 credentials of value and
57	57	a four year degree in four years or less after high school
58	58	graduation.
59	59	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
60	60	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
61	61	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
62	62	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
63	63	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.