87R9500 CXP-D     By: Capriglione H.B. No. 3709       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to curriculum requirements in American and Texas history   at institutions of higher education.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 51.302(b), Education Code, is amended to   read as follows:          (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), a college or   university receiving state support or state aid from public funds   may not grant a baccalaureate degree or a lesser degree or academic   certificate to any person unless the person has credit for six   semester hours or its equivalent from survey courses in American   History.  A student is entitled to submit as much as three semester   hours of credit or its equivalent from survey courses in Texas   History in partial satisfaction of this requirement.  The college   or university may determine that a student has satisfied this   requirement in whole or part on the basis of credit granted to the   student by the college or university for a substantially equivalent   survey course completed at another accredited college or   university, or on the basis of the student's successful completion   of an advanced standing examination administered on the conditions   and under the circumstances common for the college or university's   advanced standing examinations.  The college or university may   grant as much as three semester hours of credit or its equivalent   toward satisfaction of this requirement for substantially   equivalent work completed by a student in the program of an approved   senior R.O.T.C. unit.          SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to   the curriculum requirements established for a degree or certificate   program offered by an institution of higher education beginning   with undergraduate students who initially enroll in the institution   for the 2022 fall semester.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.