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Senate Bill 25 |
Senate Author: West et al. |
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Effective: 6-14-19 |
House Sponsor: Turner, Chris et al. |
Senate Bill 25 amends the Education Code to establish an annual reporting requirement for each public junior college regarding courses taken by students who transferred to a general academic teaching institution or earned an associate degree at the junior college. The bill establishes an annual reporting requirement for each general academic teaching institution regarding whether qualifying lower‑division courses completed by a student transferring from another public institution of higher education were granted academic credit or credit toward the student's major, as applicable.
Senate Bill 25 revises provisions relating to the required filing of a degree plan at a public institution of higher education, including by changing certain deadlines. The bill sets out provisions relating to authorized sharing of student information among certain educational entities for specified purposes.
Senate Bill 25 requires each public institution of higher education to develop, for each undergraduate certificate or degree program offered by the institution, at least one recommended course sequence that fulfils certain criteria, to include those course sequences in the institution's course catalog and on its website, and to submit the course sequences to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The bill authorizes each general academic teaching institution to enter into an articulation agreement with a lower‑division institution of higher education for purposes of a certificate or degree program and sets out related provisions. The bill makes semester credit hours earned by a high school student for a dual credit course eligible for inclusion in the instruction and operations funding formula for the public institution of higher education offering college credit for that course if the credit is in a field of study or program of study curriculum.
Senate Bill 25 requires the coordinating board to conduct a study relating to the feasibility of implementing statewide meta majors for public institutions of higher education, provides for an interim report of the study's findings and recommendations, and requires the coordinating board to establish an advisory committee for purposes of the study.