82R8101 JRJ-D

By: Guillen H.B. No. 3286

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a requirement that developmental coursework required for entering undergraduate students at four-year public institutions of higher education be completed at a public junior college.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 51.3062, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (i-2) and amending Subsections (l) and (m) to read as follows:

(i-2) A general academic teaching institution that refers a student to developmental coursework under Subsection (i) must require the student, before enrolling in any coursework at the institution, to complete the developmental coursework at a public junior college rather than at the institution. If the student was admitted to the general academic teaching institution under Subchapter U, the student is eligible to enroll in the institution when the student successfully completes the developmental coursework.

(l) The legislature shall appropriate money to public junior colleges, public technical institutes, and public state colleges for approved non-degree-credit developmental courses, except that legislative appropriations may not be used for developmental coursework taken by a student in excess of[:

[(1) 18 semester credit hours, for a general academic teaching institution; and

[(2)] 27 semester [credit] hours[, for a public junior college, public technical institute, or public state college].

(m) The board may develop formulas to supplement the funding of developmental academic programs by institutions of higher education other than general academic teaching institutions, including formulas for supplementing the funding of non-course-based programs. The board may develop a performance funding formula by which those institutions may receive additional funding for each student who completes the Success Initiative established under this section and then successfully completes college coursework. The legislature may appropriate the money required to provide the additional funding under those formulas.

SECTION 2. A general academic teaching institution shall transfer to the applicable public junior college any funding received by the institution in the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, for services rendered by the public junior college under Section 51.3062(i-2), Education Code, as added by this Act, to a student enrolled in the general academic teaching institution.

SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies beginning with entering undergraduate students at general academic teaching institutions for the 2012 fall semester. A student who enters a general academic teaching institution before the 2012 fall semester is covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.