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.