By: Haley S.B. No. 330
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the purposes of public junior and community colleges.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 130.003, Education Code,
1-4 is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (e) The purpose of each public community college shall be to
1-6 provide:
1-7 (1) technical programs up to two years in length
1-8 leading to associate degrees or certificates;
1-9 (2) vocational programs leading directly to employment
1-10 in semi-skilled and skilled occupations;
1-11 (3) freshman and sophomore courses in arts and
1-12 sciences;
1-13 (4) continuing adult education programs for
1-14 occupational or cultural upgrading;
1-15 (5) compensatory education programs designed to
1-16 fulfill the commitment of an admissions policy allowing the
1-17 enrollment of disadvantaged students;
1-18 (6) a continuing program of counseling and guidance
1-19 designed to assist students in achieving their individual
1-20 educational goals; <and>
1-21 (7) work force development programs designed to meet
1-22 local and statewide needs;
1-23 (8) adult literacy and other basic skills programs for
1-24 adults; and
2-1 (9) such other purposes as may be prescribed by the
2-2 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and
2-3 University System,> or local governing boards<,> in the best
2-4 interest of post-secondary education in Texas.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.