Amend CSSB 215 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering the remaining SECTIONs of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Subsection (f), Section 130.0012, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(f)  Each public junior college that offers a baccalaureate degree program under this section must enter into an articulation agreement for the first five years of the program with one or more general academic teaching institutions to ensure that students enrolled in the degree program have an opportunity to complete the degree if the public junior college ceases to offer the degree program. The coordinating board may require a general academic teaching institution that offers a comparable degree program to enter into an articulation agreement with the public junior college as provided by this subsection.