Bill Text: TX HB2448 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to creating a framework for including certain credentials of value offered by general academic teaching institutions as part of a baccalaureate degree program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-13 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2448 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2448-Introduced.html
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2448 |
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relating to creating a framework for including certain credentials | ||
of value offered by general academic teaching institutions as part | ||
of a baccalaureate degree program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.003. DEFINITIONS. | ||
(17) "Credential of value" means an industry | ||
recognized work-based learning credential in a high growth, high | ||
demand industry. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.05124 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.05124. ENCOURAGEMENT FOR COLLABORATION BETWEEN | ||
GENERAL ACADEMIC UNIVERSITIES, PUBLIC COMMUNITY COLLEGES, | ||
RECOGNIZED ACCREDITING AGENCIES, AND PUBLIC TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS | ||
THAT OFFER CREDENTIALS OF VALUE. a) The board shall encourage: | ||
1) Credentials of value as part of a general academic | ||
university degree plan. | ||
2) Memorandums of understanding between general | ||
academic universities and, public technical institutions that | ||
offer credentials of value. | ||
3) Transferability of credits, particularly of course | ||
yielding credentials of value. | ||
4) Development of multi-institutional degree plans. | ||
5) Creation of a frictionless financial aid process | ||
that would allow for grants, scholarships, and all other forms of | ||
financial aid to be applicable to the earning of credentials of | ||
value. | ||
b) the board shall award the designation of a Successful | ||
Outcomes distinction for general academic universities that have at | ||
least 8% of the graduating class of each academic year graduate with | ||
at least one credential of value. | ||
SECTION 3. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.05125 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.05125. CREATION AND OBLIGATIONS OF A | ||
MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL TASKFORCE. a) The Board shall create a | ||
taskforce consisting of at least one representative from A K-12 | ||
school district, a recognized accrediting entity, one | ||
representative from a general academic university, one | ||
representative from the Texas Workforce Commission, one | ||
representative from a public community college, and one | ||
representative from a public technical college. | ||
b) The taskforce shall work together to develop a framework | ||
for: | ||
1) Integrated multi institutional degree plans which | ||
are fully accredited. | ||
2) The initiation of said degree plans at the k-12 | ||
level. | ||
3) Each student earning at least 2 credentials of | ||
value in their four year degree plan. | ||
4) Graduation with at least 2 credentials of value and | ||
a four year degree in four years or less after high school | ||
graduation. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. |