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        relating to the provision of career and technology education  | 
      
      
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        courses in certain partnership programs to provide high school  | 
      
      
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        dropout recovery. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 29.402, Education Code, is amended by  | 
      
      
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        amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as  | 
      
      
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        follows: | 
      
      
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               (a)  A [Beginning September 1, 2012, a] public junior college  | 
      
      
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        may enter into an articulation agreement to partner with one or more  | 
      
      
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        school districts located in the public junior college district to  | 
      
      
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        provide on the campus of the public junior college a dropout  | 
      
      
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        recovery program for students described by Subsection (b) to  | 
      
      
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        successfully complete and receive a diploma from a high school of  | 
      
      
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        the appropriate partnering school district. | 
      
      
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               (c-1)  A public junior college under this section may partner  | 
      
      
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        with a public technical institute, as defined by Section 61.003, to  | 
      
      
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        provide, as part of the dropout recovery program curriculum, career  | 
      
      
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        and technology education courses that lead to industry or career  | 
      
      
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        certification. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Section 29.403, Education Code, is amended by  | 
      
      
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        adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (c)  A public technical institute may receive from a  | 
      
      
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        partnering public junior college for each student enrolled in a  | 
      
      
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        career and technology education course as provided by Section  | 
      
      
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        29.402(c-1) an amount negotiated between the public technical  | 
      
      
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        institute and the partnering public junior college. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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        ______________________________ | 
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 860 passed the Senate on  | 
      
      
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        April 18, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 860 passed the House on  | 
      
      
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        May 8, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 147, Nays 0, two present  | 
      
      
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        not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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        Approved: | 
      
      
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                  Governor |