Bill Text: TX HB755 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to consumer information regarding career schools and colleges.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Left pending in committee [HB755 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB755-Introduced.html
| 87R5151 KSD-D | ||
| By: Fierro | H.B. No. 755 | |
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| relating to consumer information regarding career schools and | ||
| colleges. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 132, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 132.0221 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 132.0221. CAREER SCHOOL OR COLLEGE DATABASE | ||
| INFORMATION. (a) To facilitate a consumer's informed selection | ||
| among career schools and colleges, the commission shall include in | ||
| its searchable database of licensed career schools and colleges the | ||
| student loan default rates and average per-student student loan | ||
| debt of each career school or college in addition to any other | ||
| information the commission considers appropriate for inclusion in | ||
| the database. | ||
| (b) Each career school or college shall provide to a | ||
| prospective student, before the student's enrollment in the school | ||
| or college, the most recent information included in the | ||
| commission's database regarding the school or college. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Workforce Commission shall ensure that | ||
| its searchable database of licensed career schools and colleges | ||
| includes the information prescribed by Section 132.0221, Education | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 2022. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
