By: Ratliff S.B. No. 181
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to college or university credit in government or political
1-2 science and in American or Texas history through advanced standing
1-3 examination.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 51.301 and 51.302, Education Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 51.301. Government or Political Science. Every college
1-8 and university receiving state support or state aid from public
1-9 funds shall give a course of instruction in government or political
1-10 science which includes consideration of the Constitution of the
1-11 United States and the constitutions of the states, with special
1-12 emphasis on that of Texas. This course shall have a credit value
1-13 of not less than six semester hours or its equivalent. No college
1-14 or university receiving state support or state aid from public
1-15 funds may grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or
1-16 academic certificate to any person unless he has credit for such a
1-17 course. The college or university may determine that a student has
1-18 satisfied this requirement in whole or in part on the basis of
1-19 credit granted to him by the college or university for a
1-20 substantially equivalent course completed at another accredited
1-21 college or university or on the basis of the student's successful
1-22 completion of an advanced standing examination administered on the
1-23 conditions and under the circumstances common for the college or
1-24 university's advanced standing examinations. The college or
2-1 university may grant as much as three semester hours of credit or
2-2 its equivalent toward satisfaction of this requirement for
2-3 substantially equivalent work completed by the student in the
2-4 program of an approved senior R.O.T.C. unit. <Credit for the
2-5 advanced standing examination referred to above shall never exceed
2-6 three semester hours.>
2-7 Sec. 51.302. American or Texas History. No college or
2-8 university receiving state support or state aid from public funds
2-9 may grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic
2-10 certificate to any person unless he has credit for six semester
2-11 hours or its equivalent in American History. A student is entitled
2-12 to submit as much as three semester hours of credit or its
2-13 equivalent in Texas History in partial satisfaction of this
2-14 requirement. The college or university may determine that a
2-15 student has satisfied this requirement in whole or part on the
2-16 basis of credit granted to him by the college or university for a
2-17 substantially equivalent course completed at another accredited
2-18 college or university, or on the basis of the student's successful
2-19 completion of an advanced standing examination administered on the
2-20 conditions and under the circumstances common for the college or
2-21 university's advanced standing examinations. The college or
2-22 university may grant as much as three semester hours of credit or
2-23 its equivalent toward satisfaction of this requirement for
2-24 substantially equivalent work completed by a student in the program
2-25 of an approved senior R.O.T.C. unit. <Credit for the advanced
2-26 standing examination referred to above shall never exceed three
2-27 semester hours.>
3-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-7 passage, and it is so enacted.