Amend CSHB 3025 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 1, strike lines 12 through 19 and substitute the following:
(2) "Qualified degree-granting career school or college" means a career school or college determined by the board under Subsection (c) to be qualified to participate in a statewide transfer compact developed under this section.
(2) On page 2, between lines 5 and 6, insert the following:
(c) A career school or college may apply to the board to participate in a statewide transfer compact developed under this section. On application by a career school or college, the board shall review the school's or college's curriculum for the purpose of determining whether the school or college is qualified to participate in the compact. The board may determine that the career school or college is qualified to participate in the compact only if the board finds that the school or college:
(1) is authorized to grant degrees in this state;
(2) has adopted and implemented a core curriculum described by Section 61.822, applying the same assumptions and defining characteristics applicable to institutions of higher education; and
(3) has appropriately identified for each of its core curriculum courses the equivalent course number under the common course numbering system approved by the board under Section 61.832.
(3) Reletter the subsections of added Section 61.05135, Education Code, appropriately.
(4) On page 2, line 8, strike "Subsection (a)" and substitute "Subsection (b)".