By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1352
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to course credits offered under an agreement between a
 1-2     school district and a junior college.
 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.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
 1-7     COLLEGE CREDIT.  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district, a
 1-8     public junior college may offer a course in which a student
 1-9     attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll
1-10     and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-11                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-12     academic requirements [for graduation]; and
1-13                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-14     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-15     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-16     college.
1-17           (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a high
1-18     school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
1-19     receive joint credit under this section.
1-20           (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
1-21     high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
1-22     junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
1-23     contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
1-24     share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public
 2-1     junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
 2-2     junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
 2-3     Subsection (b).
 2-4           (d)  For instances when state funding is provided to both a
 2-5     school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
 2-6     in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
 2-7     commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
 2-8     shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
 2-9     duplication of state funding.
2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.