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.