1-1  By:  Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Luna)                H.B. No. 1336
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to authorizing public junior colleges to offer courses for
    1-9  joint high school and junior college credit.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Section 130.008 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 130.008.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
   1-14  COLLEGE CREDIT.  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district, a
   1-15  public junior college may offer a course in which a student
   1-16  attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll
   1-17  and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
   1-18              (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
   1-19  academic requirements for graduation; and
   1-20              (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
   1-21  if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
   1-22  eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
   1-23  college.
   1-24        (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a high
   1-25  school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
   1-26  receive joint credit under this section.
   1-27        (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
   1-28  high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
   1-29  junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
   1-30  contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
   1-31  share of the state money appropriated  and distributed to public
   1-32  junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
   1-33  junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
   1-34  Subsection (b).
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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