MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2006 Regular Session
To: Universities and Colleges; Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Harden
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING AND THE STATE BOARD FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES TO ENTER INTO AN ARTICULATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY DEGREE PROGRAM AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND THE APPROPRIATE COLLEGE PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITIES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges are hereby authorized and directed to enter into an articulation agreement providing for the transfer of appropriate credits from the Child Development Technology Degree Program at the various community colleges to the appropriate college program at the various universities. The State Board for Community and Junior Colleges and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall jointly develop a report on the articulation agreement required under this section, and submit this report to the Committees on Education and Universities and Colleges of each House of the Legislature, on or before December 1, 2006.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2006.