Bill Text: TX SB2005 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to off-campus workforce education or lower-division programs offered by a public institution of higher education at the request of an employer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-19 - Left pending in committee [SB2005 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2005-Introduced.html
| 87R6158 KJE-D | ||
| By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 2005 | |
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| relating to off-campus workforce education or lower-division | ||
| programs offered by a public institution of higher education at the | ||
| request of an employer. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.981 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.981. OFF-CAMPUS WORKFORCE EDUCATION OR | ||
| LOWER-DIVISION PROGRAMS REQUESTED BY EMPLOYERS. An institution of | ||
| higher education may enter into an agreement with an employer to | ||
| provide a credit or noncredit off-campus workforce education or | ||
| lower-division program to the institution's students at a site | ||
| requested by the employer without the approval of a higher | ||
| education regional council established under Subchapter N, | ||
| regardless of whether the site at which the program would be offered | ||
| is located within the institution's uniform state service region | ||
| or, if the institution is a public junior college, within the junior | ||
| college district's service area, if: | ||
| (1) the employer has solicited an agreement to offer | ||
| the program at that site with another institution of higher | ||
| education that offers the same or substantially equivalent | ||
| coursework as that requested by the employer; | ||
| (2) the proposed site for the off-campus program is | ||
| located within the uniform state service region in which the | ||
| institution described by Subdivision (1) is located or, if the | ||
| institution is a public junior college, within the junior college | ||
| district's service area; and | ||
| (3) the institution of higher education described by | ||
| Subdivision (1) does not finalize an offer to enter into an | ||
| agreement with the employer that meets the employer's | ||
| specifications for the off-campus program within six weeks after | ||
| the employer's initial written solicitation requesting the | ||
| institution to offer the program. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.981, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies beginning with the 2021-2022 academic year. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
