HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:    Higher Education 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Wednesday, April 10, 2019 

PLACE:       E1.014 
CHAIR:       Rep. Chris Turner 

 

HB 355         Lang
Relating to junior college district territory annexation and program approval in certain counties.

HB 645         Raney | et al.          
Relating to the appointment of certain trustees of the Blinn Junior College District.

HB 1203        Middleton | et al.      
Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.

HB 1288        Sanford | et al.        
Relating to the carrying and possession of a handgun by a public junior college school marshal.

HB 1749        Wray | et al.           
Relating to the requirements for a junior college district to receive approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer baccalaureate degree programs.

HB 2193        Muñoz, Jr.             
Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.

HB 2843        Turner, Chris | et al.  
Relating to the administration of a practical examination by a junior college or career school or college.

HB 2980        Howard                 
Relating to the creation of an incentive program to fund innovative solutions for clinical education of graduate nurses.

HB 3124        Wilson                 
Relating to tuition and fees charged by The Texas A&M University System for certain national laboratory or national laboratory operator employees and dependents.

HB 3165        Oliverson              
Relating to an occupational and life skills associate degree program offered by the Lone Star College System District.

HB 3601        Bell, Cecil            
Relating to the accreditation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board of competency-based education degree plans for members of the Texas military forces.

HB 3655        Turner, Chris           
Relating to the administration and operation of the state's programs for paying, prepaying, or saving toward the costs of attending an institution of higher education, including the powers and duties of the Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board.

HB 3658        Turner, Chris           
Relating to drug or alcohol overdose awareness and response training for residential advisors and officers of student organizations at public or private institutions of higher education.

HB 3890        Cole                   
Relating to the exemption of tuition and laboratory fees at public institutions of higher education for certain paramedics.

HB 3932        Guerra                 
Relating to the creation of the advisory council on postsecondary education for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

HB 4003        Sheffield              
Relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board concerning a shortage of primary care physicians in this state.

HB 4039        Turner, Chris           
Relating to meeting the graduate medical education needs of medical degree programs offered or proposed by public institutions of higher education.

HB 4098        Beckley                
Relating to reports of sexual assault made to public or private institutions of higher education.

HB 4165        Pacheco                
Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs.

HB 4206        Lozano                 
Relating to a requirement that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board include the number of commercial driver's license training program certificates awarded by a public junior college in measuring the achievement of certificate and degree completion goals under the state's master plan for higher education.

HB 4465        Turner, Chris           
Relating to the student loan program administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and to the repeal of a related bond program.

HB 4615        Meyer                  
Relating to certain performance-based incentives and teacher education and development initiatives administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

HCR 133        Dutton                 
Directing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to conduct a study on the creation of a divinity program at Texas Southern University.

*Bills may be heard out of order at the discretion of the chair.

 

**All testimony will be limited to four minutes

 

 

 

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