Bill Text: TX HB2046 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility to receive certain federal funding for postsecondary career and technology education distributed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-08 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2046 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2046-Introduced.html
| 88R4220 KJE-D | ||
| By: Muñoz, Jr. | H.B. No. 2046 | |
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| relating to eligibility to receive certain federal funding for | ||
| postsecondary career and technology education distributed by the | ||
| Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0761 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0761. CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION GRANTS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "ability to benefit career and technology | ||
| education program" means a postsecondary career and technology | ||
| education program in which a person who does not have a high school | ||
| diploma or equivalency certificate and who both qualifies for | ||
| federal student financial aid and demonstrates on an assessment | ||
| instrument that the person can pass college-level courses with some | ||
| support may enroll. | ||
| (b) In establishing criteria for postsecondary career and | ||
| technology education funding provided under the Carl D. Perkins | ||
| Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. Section | ||
| 2301 et seq.), the board shall, to the extent permitted under that | ||
| law, ensure that noncredit and ability to benefit career and | ||
| technology education programs are eligible to receive funding. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
