Bill Text: TX SB972 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for a junior college district to receive approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer baccalaureate degree programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Higher Education [SB972 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB972-Introduced.html
86R7237 JRJ-D | ||
By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 972 |
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relating to the requirements for a junior college district to | ||
receive approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
to offer baccalaureate degree programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 130.307(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) A public junior college may offer a baccalaureate degree | ||
program under this subchapter only if its junior college district[ |
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financial health of the district as reported by the coordinating | ||
board. | ||
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. |