H.B. No. 1337 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the provision by a public junior college of remedial 1-3 programs for students enrolled in secondary schools in an 1-4 independent school district in the junior college's service area. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 130.090 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 130.090. REMEDIAL PROGRAMS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL 1-9 STUDENTS. (a) The governing board of a junior college district 1-10 may contract with the governing board of an independent school 1-11 district in the junior college district's service area for the 1-12 junior college to provide remedial programs for students enrolled 1-13 in secondary schools in the independent school district in 1-14 preparation for graduation from secondary school and entrance into 1-15 college. 1-16 (b) The governing board of a junior college district may 1-17 exempt from tuition a student enrolled in a remedial program 1-18 provided under Subsection (a). 1-19 (c) The grant of an exemption from tuition under Subsection 1-20 (b) does not affect the right of a junior college to a 1-21 proportionate share of state appropriations under Section 130.003 1-22 attributable to the contact hours of the junior college with the 1-23 student receiving the exemption. 1-24 (d) For instances when state funding is provided to both a 2-1 school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled 2-2 in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the 2-3 commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education 2-4 shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate 2-5 duplication of state funding. 2-6 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the fall semester 2-7 of 1995. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.