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. 1-45 * * * * *