By Kamel H.B. No. 1733 75R5282 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to courses and programs at public junior colleges that do 1-3 not receive state funding. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 130.0065 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 130.0065. COURSE OR PROGRAM SUPPORTED EXCLUSIVELY BY 1-8 LOCAL FUNDS. (a) The governing board of a junior college district 1-9 may establish a course or a degree or certificate program that is 1-10 funded exclusively by: 1-11 (1) tuition and fees from students registered for the 1-12 course or for a course held as part of the program; and 1-13 (2) other funds, including gifts or grants, available 1-14 to the board from sources other than state appropriations. 1-15 (b) The costs of conducting a course established under this 1-16 section or conducted as part of a program established under this 1-17 section may not be paid for in whole or in part from state 1-18 appropriations. Contact hours of students registered in the course 1-19 shall be excluded from the contact hours used to allocate state 1-20 appropriations to the junior college district under Section 1-21 130.003. 1-22 (c) A course or program may be established under this 1-23 section without the approval of the Texas Higher Education 1-24 Coordinating Board under Subchapter B, Chapter 61. As long as the 2-1 course or program is funded exclusively as provided by Subsection 2-2 (a), the course or program is not subject to the continuing 2-3 approval of the coordinating board. 2-4 (d) For purposes of this section, a core curriculum course 2-5 or other course not established primarily to support a program 2-6 established under this section that a student takes while enrolled 2-7 in the program is not considered to be part of the program and is 2-8 not excluded from funding on the basis of contact hours under 2-9 Section 130.003. 2-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.