By Rodriguez                                          H.B. No. 1337
       74R2552 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
    2-1  of 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.