By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 719
 
  (Raney)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  to collect and study data on the participation of persons with
  intellectual disabilities in workforce education programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 61.0664(a), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The board shall collect and maintain data relating to:
               (1)  undergraduate and graduate level participation of
  persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities at
  institutions of higher education, including data regarding
  applications for admission, admissions, retention, graduation, and
  professional licensing; and
               (2)  participation of persons with intellectual and
  developmental disabilities enrolled in a workforce education
  program, including a workforce continuing education program, that
  is eligible for state-appropriated formula funding, including data
  regarding retention, graduation, and professional licensing.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.