Bill Text: TX HB3165 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an occupational and life skills associate degree program offered by the Lone Star College System District.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB3165 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3165-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3165 |
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relating to an occupational and life skills associate degree | ||
program offered by the Lone Star College System District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 130.0106 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.0106. OCCUPATIONAL AND LIFE SKILLS ASSOCIATE | ||
DEGREE PROGRAM. (a) The governing board of the Lone Star College | ||
System District may establish an occupational and life skills | ||
associate degree program at each junior college in the district. | ||
(b) An occupational and life skills associate degree | ||
program established at a junior college under this section must | ||
require a student to successfully complete: | ||
(1) an appropriate curriculum of required courses for | ||
the degree program adopted by the governing board of the junior | ||
college district; and | ||
(2) additional courses selected by the student in the | ||
student's degree plan. | ||
(c) Section 61.05151(a) does not apply to an associate | ||
degree program established under this section. | ||
(d) The coordinating board shall adopt rules as necessary | ||
for the administration of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3165 was passed by the House on April | ||
25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3165 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |