1-1     By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 813

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 1997; March 4, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on International Relations,

 1-4     Trade, and Technology; May 2, 1997, reported adversely, with

 1-5     favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays

 1-6     0; May 2, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 813                    By:  Truan

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to improvement of career and technology education

1-10     programs.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Sections 29.1821 and 29.186 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 29.1821.  INTERAGENCY MEETINGS.  (a)  To improve

1-15     interagency and public-private coordination concerning career and

1-16     technology education programs and to ensure the statewide delivery

1-17     of career and technology education programs at each appropriate

1-18     grade level, the agency shall conduct quarterly meetings that

1-19     include:

1-20                 (1)  a representative from the Texas Workforce

1-21     Commission;

1-22                 (2)  a representative from the Council on Workforce and

1-23     Economic Competitiveness;

1-24                 (3)  representatives from the Texas Higher Education

1-25     Coordinating Board;

1-26                 (4)  a representative from the Texas Department of

1-27     Commerce;

1-28                 (5)  representatives from business and industry in this

1-29     state; and

1-30                 (6)  administrators from career and technology

1-31     education programs located in different regions throughout this

1-32     state.

1-33           (b)  Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year,

1-34     the agency shall submit to the legislature a written report of the

1-35     findings and recommendations that result from the meetings held

1-36     during the preceding biennium.

1-37           Sec. 29.186.  PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY.  (a)  The agency

1-38     may adopt guidelines that a middle, junior high, or high school

1-39     career and technology education program may use in forming a

1-40     partnership with one or more local industries to provide work-based

1-41     learning stations for students in the school's career and

1-42     technology education program.

1-43           (b)  The agency may adopt rules to ensure that any federal or

1-44     state money a school receives for purposes of a partnership between

1-45     the school's career and technology education program and a local

1-46     industry is used only for that purpose.

1-47           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-48           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-49     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-50     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-51     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-52     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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