By:  Linebarger                                        H.B. No. 515
       73R1439 MLR-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a review of child development training agreements.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 61.083 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 61.083.  REVIEW OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
    1-7  AGREEMENTS.  (a)  In this section:
    1-8              (1)  "Articulation" means the alignment of lower
    1-9  division courses and requirements and the sequencing of lower and
   1-10  upper division courses and programs that are offered by vocational
   1-11  programs and two-year or four-year institutions of higher
   1-12  education.
   1-13              (2)  "Transfer" means the process of reviewing and
   1-14  admitting applicants for advanced standing.
   1-15        (b)  The board shall annually conduct a review of vocational
   1-16  programs and institutions of higher education to determine which
   1-17  programs and institutions have or are developing agreements that
   1-18  relate to child development training and that provide for
   1-19  articulation of courses and programs and transfer of credits.
   1-20        (c)  The board shall prepare an annual report on the results
   1-21  of the review.  The report must include an assessment of the need
   1-22  for future agreements and recommendations for the expansion or
   1-23  alteration of agreements.
   1-24        (d)  The board shall submit copies of the report to the
    2-1  legislature not later than October 1 of each year.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The board shall submit the first report required
    2-3  under Section 61.083, Education Code, as added by this Act, not
    2-4  later than October 1, 1994.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.