By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 3290
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to course credits offered under an agreement between a
 1-3     school district and a junior college.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 130.008.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
 1-8     COLLEGE CREDIT.  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district, a
 1-9     public junior college may offer a course in which a student
1-10     attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll
1-11     and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-12                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-13     academic requirements [for graduation]; and
1-14                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-15     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-16     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-17     college.
1-18           (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a high
1-19     school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
1-20     receive joint credit under this section.
1-21           (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
1-22     high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
1-23     junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
1-24     contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
 2-1     share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public
 2-2     junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
 2-3     junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
 2-4     Subsection (b).
 2-5           (d)  For instances when state funding is provided to both a
 2-6     school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
 2-7     in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
 2-8     commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
 2-9     shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
2-10     duplication of state funding.
2-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.