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.