83R9490 JRJ-D
 
  By: Bonnen of Brazoria H.B. No. 1974
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain duties of public junior colleges and the Texas
  Higher Education Coordinating Board in relation to baccalaureate
  degree programs offered by public junior colleges.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 130.0012(f), 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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.