1-1     By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1853
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 9, 1999; April 12, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 23, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 23, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to reports on the degree, certificate, or other enrollment
 1-9     status of public junior college students.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 130.0036 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 130.0036.  REPORT ON STUDENT ENROLLMENT STATUS.  (a)  In
1-14     the form and manner and at the times required by the Texas Higher
1-15     Education Coordinating Board, a junior college district shall
1-16     report to the coordinating board on the enrollment status of
1-17     students of the junior college district.  The report must include
1-18     information on:
1-19                 (1)  students seeking a degree;
1-20                 (2)  students seeking a certificate;
1-21                 (3)  students enrolled in workforce continuing
1-22     education courses;
1-23                 (4)  students enrolled in college credit courses who
1-24     are not seeking a degree or certificate;
1-25                 (5)  students enrolled in courses for credit to
1-26     transfer to another institution;
1-27                 (6)  students enrolled in developmental education
1-28     courses by course level; and
1-29                 (7)  enrollment in other categories as specified by the
1-30     coordinating board.
1-31           (b)  In administering this section, the coordinating board
1-32     shall attempt to avoid duplicating other reporting requirements
1-33     applicable to junior college districts.  The coordinating board
1-34     shall consult with the governing boards of the state's junior
1-35     college districts in determining the form, manner, and times of
1-36     reports under this section.
1-37           SECTION 2.  Junior college districts shall report as required
1-38     by Section 130.0036, Education Code, as added by this Act,
1-39     beginning with the 1999 fall semester.
1-40           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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