By Hilbert H.B. No. 1470 76R4902 SRC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the costs of and reducing the need for remedial 1-3 education of high school graduates. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 45, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 45.112 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 45.112. SCHOOL DISTRICT RESPONSIBILITY FOR REMEDIAL 1-8 EDUCATION COSTS. (a) The commissioner of education may assign to 1-9 a school district that consistently graduates students who require 1-10 postsecondary remedial education all or a part of the costs of 1-11 remedial education provided by an institution of higher education. 1-12 The commissioner shall assign the costs as provided by the rules 1-13 adopted under this section and Section 51.3062. 1-14 (b) The State Board of Education, in cooperation with the 1-15 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt rules to 1-16 facilitate charging school districts for remedial education costs 1-17 under this section. The rules shall be designed to ensure 1-18 fairness, consistency, and fundamental due process. 1-19 (c) In this section, "institution of higher education" has 1-20 the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. 1-21 SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-22 amended by adding Sections 51.3062 and 51.3063 to read as follows: 1-23 Sec. 51.3062. RULES APPLYING TO REMEDIAL EDUCATION COSTS. 1-24 The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in cooperation with 2-1 the State Board of Education, shall adopt rules to facilitate 2-2 charging school districts for remedial education costs under 2-3 Section 45.112. The rules shall be designed to ensure fairness, 2-4 consistency, and fundamental due process. 2-5 Sec. 51.3063. ELIMINATION OF REMEDIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. 2-6 (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall develop a 2-7 plan for the gradual elimination of remedial educational programs 2-8 at institutions of higher education. Not later than February 1, 2-9 2001, the coordinating board shall make a report of its results to 2-10 the 77th Legislature. 2-11 (b) This section expires June 1, 2001. 2-12 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.