By:  Smith, Ashley                                    H.B. No. 1456
       73R559 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the standardization of performance and admission
    1-3  criteria and of curriculum requirements of public junior colleges.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 61.0621 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 61.0621.  PERFORMANCE AND ADMISSION CRITERIA AND
    1-8  CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS OF JUNIOR COLLEGES.  (a)  The board shall
    1-9  standardize the performance and admission criteria and curriculum
   1-10  requirements of all public junior colleges.
   1-11        (b)  The board by rule shall:
   1-12              (1)  set performance criteria for each public junior
   1-13  college based on the educational achievement of students attending
   1-14  that junior college;
   1-15              (2)  establish a core course curriculum for each public
   1-16  junior college;
   1-17              (3)  set minimum standards for the core course
   1-18  curriculum; and
   1-19              (4)  set minimum standards for admission to each public
   1-20  junior college.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  Not later than August 1, 1993, the Texas Higher
   1-22  Education Coordinating Board shall adopt and distribute to the
   1-23  governing board of each public junior college initial rules as
   1-24  required by Section 61.0621, Education Code, as added by this Act.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.