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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