Bill Text: TX HB2673 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the development of transferable degree or certificate program curricula for which qualified veterans or military service members may be awarded course credit based on military service.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2673 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2673-Introduced.html
| 85R6856 KSD-D | ||
| By: Blanco | H.B. No. 2673 | |
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| relating to the development of transferable degree or certificate | ||
| program curricula for which qualified veterans or military service | ||
| members may be awarded course credit based on military service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter S, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.835 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.835. TRANSFERABLE COLLEGE CREDIT FOR HEROES | ||
| CURRICULA. (a) To promote the purposes of the College Credit for | ||
| Heroes program established under Section 302.0031, Labor Code, the | ||
| board, in consultation with the Texas Workforce Commission, the | ||
| Texas Veterans Commission, and institutions of higher education, | ||
| shall: | ||
| (1) develop standardized curricula within degree and | ||
| certificate programs commonly offered by institutions of higher | ||
| education toward which qualified veterans or military service | ||
| members may be awarded appropriate academic credit for experience, | ||
| education, and training earned during military service; and | ||
| (2) require the transferability between institutions | ||
| of higher education of course credit for curricula developed under | ||
| this section that is awarded to qualified veterans or military | ||
| service members. | ||
| (b) The board shall adopt rules for the administration of | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| shall adopt the initial rules required by Section 61.835, Education | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, not later than May 1, 2018. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
