By:  Bivins, Madla                                     S.B. No. 636
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to concurrent enrollment agreements between junior
 1-2     colleges and private high schools.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 130.008.  CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT AGREEMENT WITH PUBLIC OR
 1-7     PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL [COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
 1-8     COLLEGE CREDIT].  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district or
 1-9     a private high school that is accredited by an organization
1-10     approved by the commissioner of education for private school
1-11     accreditation, a public junior college may offer a course in which
1-12     a student attending a high school operated by the school district
1-13     or attending the private high school may enroll and for which the
1-14     student may simultaneously receive both:
1-15                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-16     academic requirements for graduation; and
1-17                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-18     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-19     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-20     college.
1-21           (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a
1-22     public or private high school student enrolled in a course for
1-23     which the student may receive joint credit under this section.
1-24           (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
 2-1     public or private high school student in a course offered for joint
 2-2     high school and junior college credit under this section shall be
 2-3     included in the contact hours used to determine the junior
 2-4     college's proportionate share of the state money appropriated and
 2-5     distributed to public junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and
 2-6     130.0031, even if the junior college waives the tuition fee for the
 2-7     student under 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.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.