By: Haley S.B. No. 330
73R3687 SOS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the purposes of public junior and community colleges.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 130.003(e), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (e) The purpose of each public community college shall be to
1-7 provide:
1-8 (1) technical programs up to two years in length
1-9 leading to associate degrees or certificates;
1-10 (2) vocational programs leading directly to employment
1-11 in semi-skilled and skilled occupations;
1-12 (3) freshman and sophomore courses in arts and
1-13 sciences;
1-14 (4) continuing adult education programs for
1-15 occupational or cultural upgrading;
1-16 (5) compensatory education programs designed to
1-17 fulfill the commitment of an admissions policy allowing the
1-18 enrollment of disadvantaged students.
1-19 (6) a continuing program of counseling and guidance
1-20 designed to assist students in achieving their individual
1-21 educational goals; <and>
1-22 (7) work force development programs designed to meet
1-23 local and statewide needs;
1-24 (8) adult literary and other basic skills programs for
2-1 adults; and
2-2 (9) such other purposes as may be prescribed by the
2-3 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and
2-4 University System>, or local governing boards, in the best interest
2-5 of post-secondary education in Texas.
2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.