HB2141 Summary

• Requires all Arizona universities and community colleges to offer a course on the U.S. and Arizona constitutions with emphasis on the bill of rights, worth at least 6 semester hours of credit.

• Makes the constitutional studies course a degree requirement for all baccalaureate degrees, lesser degrees, and academic certificates unless specifically exempted.

• Exempts students in military medical and dental programs requiring less than two years of residency and whose principal participants are stationed outside Arizona from the Arizona constitution requirement.

• Allows the Arizona Board of Regents to exempt dual degree students from foreign universities from the constitutional studies course if they complete a 4-semester-hour "American way" course covering U.S. government, history, civil rights, and Arizona history.

• Requires universities and community colleges to report the course names and numbers in their annual reports to the Board of Regents and respective district governing boards.