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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