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House Bill 2628 |
House Author: Clardy |
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Effective: 9-1-15 |
Senate Sponsor: Garcia |
House Bill 2628 amends the Education Code to require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, with the assistance of institutions of higher education, career and technical education experts, and college and career readiness experts, to establish alignment between the college and career readiness standards and the knowledge, skills, and abilities students are expected to demonstrate in career and technical education by establishing programs of study that, among other things, culminate in the attainment of an industry-recognized certification, credential, or license, a registered apprenticeship or credit-bearing postsecondary certificate, or an associate or baccalaureate degree. The bill requires the coordinating board, with the assistance of advisory committees, to develop career and technical education program of study curricula. The bill provides for the composition of the advisory committees, requires the advisory committees to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to prepare students for high-skill, high-wage jobs in high-demand occupations, and requires the coordinating board, in developing such curricula, to pursue a management strategy that maximizes efficiency. The bill authorizes the coordinating board to partner with the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Workforce Commission, and other state agencies to develop such programs of study.
In addition, the bill specifies that a student enrolled in a board-established program of study who transfers from a public institution to another public institution that offers a similar program, regardless of whether the institution has adopted the board-established program of study, must receive academic credit from the institution to which the student transferred for each of the courses that the student has successfully completed in the program of study curriculum. The bill authorizes the student to complete the program of study at the institution to which the student transferred by completing only the remaining number of semester credit hours the student would need to complete the program of study at the institution from which the student transferred, unless otherwise required by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.