By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1853
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to reports on the degree, certificate, or other enrollment
 1-2     status of public junior college students.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 130.0036 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 130.0036.  REPORT ON STUDENT ENROLLMENT STATUS.  (a)  In
 1-7     the form and manner and at the times required by the Texas Higher
 1-8     Education Coordinating Board, a junior college district shall
 1-9     report to the coordinating board on the enrollment status of
1-10     students of the junior college district.  The report must include
1-11     information on:
1-12                 (1)  students seeking a degree;
1-13                 (2)  students seeking a certificate;
1-14                 (3)  students enrolled in workforce continuing
1-15     education courses;
1-16                 (4)  students enrolled in college credit courses who
1-17     are not seeking a degree or certificate;
1-18                 (5)  students enrolled in courses for credit to
1-19     transfer to another institution;
1-20                 (6)  students enrolled in developmental education
1-21     courses by course level; and
1-22                 (7)  enrollment in other categories as specified by the
1-23     coordinating board.
1-24           (b)  In administering this section, the coordinating board
 2-1     shall attempt to avoid duplicating other reporting requirements
 2-2     applicable to junior college districts.  The coordinating board
 2-3     shall consult with the governing boards of the state's junior
 2-4     college districts in determining the form, manner, and times of
 2-5     reports under this section.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  Junior college districts shall report as required
 2-7     by Section 130.0036, Education Code, as added by this Act,
 2-8     beginning with the 1999 fall semester.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.