By Rodriguez                                          H.B. No. 1336
       74R2536 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing public junior colleges to offer courses for
    1-3  joint high school and junior college credit.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 130.008 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 130.008.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
    1-8  COLLEGE CREDIT.  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district, a
    1-9  public junior college may offer a course in which a student
   1-10  attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll
   1-11  and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
   1-12              (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
   1-13  academic requirements for graduation; and
   1-14              (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
   1-15  if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
   1-16  eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
   1-17  college.
   1-18        (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a high
   1-19  school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
   1-20  receive joint credit under this section.
   1-21        (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
   1-22  high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
   1-23  junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
   1-24  contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
    2-1  share of the state money appropriated  and distributed to public
    2-2  junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
    2-3  junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
    2-4  Subsection (b).
    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.