1-1  By:  Rodriguez (Senate Sponsor - Luna)                H.B. No. 1337
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
    1-3  April 11, 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 the provision by a public junior college of remedial
    1-9  programs for students enrolled in secondary schools in an
   1-10  independent school district in the junior college's service area.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
   1-13  amended by adding Section 130.090 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 130.090.  REMEDIAL PROGRAMS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
   1-15  STUDENTS.  (a)  The governing board of a junior college district
   1-16  may contract with the governing board of an independent school
   1-17  district in the junior college district's service area for the
   1-18  junior college to provide remedial programs for students enrolled
   1-19  in secondary schools in the independent school district in
   1-20  preparation for graduation from secondary school and entrance into
   1-21  college.
   1-22        (b)  The governing board of a junior college district may
   1-23  exempt from tuition a student enrolled in a remedial program
   1-24  provided under Subsection (a).
   1-25        (c)  The grant of an exemption from tuition under Subsection
   1-26  (b) does not affect the right of a junior college to a
   1-27  proportionate share of state appropriations under Section 130.003
   1-28  attributable to the contact hours of the junior college with the
   1-29  student receiving the exemption.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the fall semester
   1-31  of 1995.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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