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. 1-39 * * * * *