By: Pacheco, Cortez, Allison, Gervin-Hawkins, H.B. No. 4165
      Minjarez, et al.
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer
  baccalaureate degree programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 130.306, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read
  as follows:
         (b)  Except as otherwise provided by this section
  [Subsection (a)], a public junior college offering a baccalaureate
  degree program under this subchapter may not offer more than three
  baccalaureate degree programs at any time.
         (d)  A public junior college offering a baccalaureate degree
  program under this subchapter that is located in a county with a
  population of more than 1,700,000 based on United States Census
  2010 data and that is located within 180 miles of the Texas-Mexico
 
  border may not offer more than five baccalaureate degree programs
  at any time.
         (e)  At any time, South Texas College may not offer more than
  six baccalaureate degree programs under this subchapter.
         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, 2019.