81R9287 KEL-D
 
  By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1343
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the formula funding for public institutions of higher
  education for certain credit hours that do not count toward a
  degree.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 61.0595(d), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (d)  The following are not counted for purposes of
  determining whether the student has previously earned the number of
  semester credit hours specified by Subsection (a):
               (1)  semester credit hours earned by the student before
  receiving an associate or [a] baccalaureate degree that has
  previously been awarded to the student;
               (2)  semester credit hours earned by the student by
  examination or under any other procedure by which credit is earned
  without registering for a course for which tuition is charged;
               (3)  credit for a remedial education course, a
  technical course, a workforce education course funded according to
  contact hours, or another course that does not count toward a degree
  program at the institution; and
               (4)  semester credit hours earned by the student at a
  private institution or an out-of-state institution.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
  61.0595, Education Code, applies beginning with the funding
  recommendations made under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the
  2011-2012 academic year.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2009.