| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to a transferability report card for public institutions |
|
|
of higher education. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Section 51.96854 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 51.96854. TRANSFERABILITY REPORT CARD. (a) In this |
|
|
section: |
|
|
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher |
|
|
Education Coordinating Board. |
|
|
(2) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning |
|
|
assigned by Section 61.003. |
|
|
(b) Not later than March 1 of each year, an institution of |
|
|
higher education shall post on the institution's Internet website a |
|
|
transferability report card that indicates for the preceding |
|
|
academic year: |
|
|
(1) the total number of semester credit hours or the |
|
|
equivalent for which undergraduate students transferring to the |
|
|
institution applied for transfer credit; and |
|
|
(2) the percentage of the semester credit hours or the |
|
|
equivalent described by Subdivision (1) for which students received |
|
|
transfer credit. |
|
|
(c) The coordinating board, in consultation with |
|
|
institutions of higher education, shall develop a model |
|
|
transferability report card for use under Subsection (b). |
|
|
(d) Not later than April 1 of each year, the coordinating |
|
|
board shall post on the coordinating board's Internet website a |
|
|
list of each institution of higher education's transferability |
|
|
percentage described by Subsection (b)(2). |
|
|
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date |
|
|
of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall |
|
|
develop the model transferability report card required under |
|
|
Section 51.96854(c), Education Code, as added by this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than March 1, 2022, each public |
|
|
institution of higher education shall post on the institution's |
|
|
Internet website the initial transferability report card required |
|
|
under Section 51.96854(b), Education Code, as added by this Act. |
|
|
(b) Not later than April 1, 2022, the Texas Higher Education |
|
|
Coordinating Board shall post on the board's Internet website the |
|
|
initial list required under Section 51.96854(d), Education Code, as |
|
|
added by this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |