By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 427
(In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2023; February 15, 2023,
read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
April 24, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on Education by
the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 24, 2023, sent to
printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring certain institutions of higher education to
enter into an agreement to offer undergraduate courses in Texas
History.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.302, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) A college or university receiving state support or state
aid from public funds that does not offer at least three semester
credit hours or the equivalent in Texas History to undergraduate
students shall enter into an agreement with another postsecondary
educational institution to offer to the college or university's
undergraduate students at least three semester credit hours or the
equivalent in Texas History.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
academic year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2023.
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