73rd
Senate Bill 342
Sponsored by Senator SCHRADER,
Representative SCOTT
SUMMARY
The following summary is
not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body
thereof subject to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as introduced.
Directs
State Board of Higher Education and State Board of Education to jointly develop
common course numbering system. Directs
state institutions of higher education and community colleges to accept for
credit toward degree, credits granted by other state institutions and colleges.
Declares
emergency, effective July 1, 2005.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to higher education courses; and
declaring an emergency.
Be It
Enacted by the People of the State of
SECTION 1.
(1) The State Board of Higher Education and the State Board of
Education
shall jointly develop a common course
numbering system that shall be used by all state
institutions
of higher education listed in ORS 352.002 and community colleges as defined in
ORS 341.005. The common course numbering system shall include the number and
type of credits that a student will receive for each course at all state
institutions of higher education and community colleges.
(2) All state institutions of higher education and community
colleges shall accept for
credit toward a degree all of the following
types of credits if at the time the student earned
the credit the student could have used the
credit toward obtaining a degree at a state
institution
of higher education or community college:
(a)
Credits received by a student at a community college;
(b) Credits received by a student at
a state institution of higher education; and
(c)
Credits received by a student while attending high school that were received
for a course administered in
conjunction with a state institution of higher education
or community college.
(3) A state institution of higher education or community
college shall accept the credits
described
in subsection (2) of this section, to the extent possible, as the same types
and
number
of credits the student would have received at the state institution of higher
education
or community college where the credits were earned.
SECTION 2.
Section
1 of this 2005 Act first applies to:
(1) The 2005-2006 academic year; and
(2) Degrees granted by state
institutions of higher education and community colleges on
or after
the effective date of this 2005 Act.
SECTION 3.
This
2005 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace,
health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2005 Act takes
effect July 1, 2005.