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HB1868 • 2025

Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Leo Wilson | Perez, Vincent
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective immediately
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed without the Governor's signature

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective immediately

  3. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  5. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  6. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  7. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage reported

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  13. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  14. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  15. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  16. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  17. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  18. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  19. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  20. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  21. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  22. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  23. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  24. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  25. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  26. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  27. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Education K-16

  28. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  29. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  30. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1030

  31. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  32. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  33. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  34. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  35. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  36. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  37. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#886

  38. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  39. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar

  40. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Withdrawn from calendar (contested)

  41. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.

  42. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  43. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Transferred to Calendars Committee

  44. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  45. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  46. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Local & Consent Calendars

  47. 2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

  48. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  49. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  50. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  51. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  52. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent

  53. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  54. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  55. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  56. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  57. 2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  58. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  59. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Higher Education

  60. 2025-01-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 1868 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 1868

AN ACT

relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual

credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college

state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to

teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 130A, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 130A.1011 to read as follows:

Sec.

130A.1011.

STUDY ON DUAL CREDIT OR DUAL ENROLLMENT

COURSE SEQUENCES AND WORKFORCE CAPACITY. (a)

The coordinating

board shall conduct a study to assess the feasibility and the fiscal

and policy implications, including the fiscal impact to the state,

of decreasing the number of semester credit hours or the equivalent

for a sequence of dual credit or dual enrollment courses for

purposes of performance tier funding under Section 130A.101(c)(3)

to nine semester credit hours or the equivalent.

(b)

In conducting the study, the coordinating board shall

assess:

(1)

the potential benefit to students of taking the

action described by Subsection (a), including:

(A)

alignment with the public school

accountability system under Chapter 39;

(B)

any reduction in the time to graduate with or

the cost for an undergraduate degree at an institution of higher

education; and

(C)

a comparison of matriculation and completion

rates for students who complete a sequence of 9 semester credit

hours or the equivalent for dual credit or dual enrollment courses

versus a sequence of 15 semester credit hours or the equivalent for

those courses; and

(2)

the current and projected capacity of the state's

workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses,

including:

(A)

an estimate of the number of instructors

currently eligible to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses

and the geographic distribution of those instructors;

(B)

an analysis of barriers to certification or

credentialing in teaching dual credit or dual enrollment courses;

and

(C)

strategies to increase the number of

instructors eligible to teach dual credit or dual enrollment

courses, including:

(i) professional development pathways;

(ii)

partnerships with institutions of

higher education, as defined by Section 61.003; and

(iii)

targeted financial or academic

support programs.

(c)

The coordinating board may consult with the Texas

Education Agency and institutions of higher education in conducting

the study.

(d)

Not later than December 1, 2026, the coordinating board

shall submit to the legislature a report on the results of the study

conducted under this section and any recommendations for

legislative or other action, including recommendations for actions

to support an expanded workforce of dual credit or dual enrollment

instructors.

(e) This section expires September 1, 2027.

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, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1868 was passed by the House on April

30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 103, Nays 30, 3 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1868 was passed by the Senate on May

28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor