Bill Text: TX SB788 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a workforce high school diploma program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Referred to Education [SB788 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB788-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 788 | |
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| relating to a workforce high school diploma program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 28.0255 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 28.0255. WORKFORCE HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA PROGRAM. (a) | ||
| The State Board of Education, in coordination with the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board, shall by rule develop a workforce | ||
| high school diploma program under which students who have not | ||
| received a high school diploma and who have successfully completed | ||
| a workforce certificate course of study as described by Subsection | ||
| (b) may receive a high school diploma as provided by this section. | ||
| (b) For purposes of this section, a workforce certificate | ||
| course of study is a sequential course of study of at least 30 | ||
| credit hours in a career and technical education program offered by | ||
| a public junior college that leads to industry or career | ||
| certification. | ||
| (c) In adopting rules to develop the program under | ||
| Subsection (a), the State Board of Education, in coordination with | ||
| the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall approve a | ||
| variety of career and technical education programs described by | ||
| Subsection (b). | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a | ||
| person is eligible to receive a high school diploma under this | ||
| section if the student: | ||
| (1) has not satisfactorily completed the curriculum | ||
| requirements under Section 28.025; | ||
| (2) has satisfactorily completed a workforce | ||
| certificate course of study described by Subsection (b); and | ||
| (3) complies with any additional requirements | ||
| provided by rule by the State Board of Education, in coordination | ||
| with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. | ||
| (e) The school district in which an eligible person resides | ||
| shall issue to that person a high school diploma as provided by this | ||
| subsection. The State Board of Education, in coordination with the | ||
| Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall by rule adopt the | ||
| form and designate the title of a diploma issued under this section. | ||
| The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to authorize school | ||
| districts to issue diplomas to eligible students under 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, 2013. | ||
