1-1     By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1352
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April  16, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to course credits offered under an agreement between a
 1-9     school district and a junior college.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 130.008.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
1-14     COLLEGE CREDIT.  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district, a
1-15     public junior college may offer a course in which a student
1-16     attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll
1-17     and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-18                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-19     academic requirements [for graduation]; and
1-20                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-21     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-22     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-23     college.
1-24           (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a high
1-25     school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
1-26     receive joint credit under this section.
1-27           (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
1-28     high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
1-29     junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
1-30     contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
1-31     share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public
1-32     junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
1-33     junior college waives the tuition fee for the student under
1-34     Subsection (b).
1-35           (d)  For instances when state funding is provided to both a
1-36     school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
1-37     in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
1-38     commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
1-39     shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
1-40     duplication of state funding.
1-41           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-42           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-43     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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