1-1     By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 636
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1999; February 24, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     March 8, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 8, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 636                   By:  Bivins
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to concurrent enrollment agreements between junior
1-11     colleges and private high schools.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 130.008.  CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT AGREEMENT WITH PUBLIC OR
1-16     PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL [COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
1-17     COLLEGE CREDIT].  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district or
1-18     a private high school that is accredited by an organization
1-19     approved by the commissioner of education for private school
1-20     accreditation, a public junior college may offer a course in which
1-21     a student attending a high school operated by the school district
1-22     or attending the private high school may enroll and for which the
1-23     student may simultaneously receive both:
1-24                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-25     academic requirements for graduation; and
1-26                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-27     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-28     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-29     college.
1-30           (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a
1-31     public or private high school student enrolled in a course for
1-32     which the student may receive joint credit under this section.
1-33           (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
1-34     public or private high school student in a course offered for joint
1-35     high school and junior college credit under this section shall be
1-36     included in the contact hours used to determine the junior
1-37     college's proportionate share of the state money appropriated and
1-38     distributed to public junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and
1-39     130.0031, even if the junior college waives the tuition fee for the
1-40     student under Subsection (b).
1-41           (d)  For instances when state funding is provided to both a
1-42     school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
1-43     in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
1-44     commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
1-45     shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
1-46     duplication of state funding.
1-47           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-48     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53     passage, and it is so enacted.
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