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Senate Bill 1782 |
Senate Author: West |
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Effective: 6-15-17 |
House Sponsor: Clardy et al. |
Senate Bill 1782 amends the Education Code to require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules under which a public institution of higher education is required to permit a student who has reenrolled at the institution following a break in enrollment, subject to certain conditions, to drop one additional course beyond the maximum number of courses permitted to be dropped under state law or institution policy, as applicable. The bill prohibits the coordinating board from excluding semester credit hours for any course taken up to three times by such a student from the number of semester credit hours reported to the Legislative Budget Board for formula funding purposes. The bill excludes the first additional 15 semester credit hours earned toward a degree program by such a student from being counted as excess undergraduate credit hours under coordinating board funding formulas.