Bill Text: TX SB487 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing of any Community College District to offer a baccalaureate degree program in the field of education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to s/c on Higher Education by Pres [SB487 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB487-Introduced.html
| By: Springer | S.B. No. 487 | |
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| Relating to authorizing of any Community College District to offer | ||
| a baccalaureate degree program in the field of education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter L, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Section 130.303 to read as follows: | ||
| Section 130.303 AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN BACCALAUREATE | ||
| DEGREE PROGRAMS. (a) The coordinating board shall authorize | ||
| baccalaureate degree programs in the fields of applied science, | ||
| applied technology, and nursing at each public junior college that | ||
| previously participated in a pilot project to offer baccalaureate | ||
| degree programs. | ||
| (b) The coordinating board may authorize baccalaureate | ||
| degree programs at one or more public junior colleges that offer a | ||
| degree program in the field of applied science, including a degree | ||
| program in the field of applied science with an emphasis in early | ||
| childhood education, applied technology, or nursing and have | ||
| demonstrated a workforce need. | ||
| (c) The coordinating board may authorize a baccalaureate | ||
| degree program in the field of general education for the purposes of | ||
| graduating licensed teachers at any public junior college. | ||
| (d) The limitations prescribed by Section 130.306 and | ||
| Section 130.307 do not apply to a baccalaureate degree program in | ||
| the field of general education for the purposes of graduating | ||
| licensed teachers under this section. | ||
| (e) Not later than January 1, 2025, the coordinating board | ||
| shall prepare a progress report on the baccalaureate degree program | ||
| in the field of general education teacher established under this | ||
| section. Not later than January 1, 2027, the coordinating board | ||
| shall prepare a report on the effectiveness of the degree program, | ||
| including any recommendations for legislative action regarding the | ||
| offering of baccalaureate degree programs in the field of education | ||
| by a public junior college. The coordinating board shall deliver a | ||
| copy of each report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the | ||
| speaker of the house of representatives, the chair of the standing | ||
| committee of each house of the legislature with primary | ||
| jurisdiction over higher education, and the primary author and | ||
| primary sponsor of the bill. This subsection expires January 1, | ||
| 2028. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
