By Greenberg H.B. No. 3290
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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
2-1 high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
2-2 junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
2-3 contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
2-4 share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public
2-5 junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
2-6 junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
2-7 Subsection (b).
2-8 (d) For instances when state funding is provided to both a
2-9 school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
2-10 in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
2-11 commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
2-12 shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
2-13 duplication of state funding.
2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.