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. 1-42 * * * * *