By Green                                               H.B. No. 571
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to concurrent enrollment agreements between junior
 1-3     colleges and private high schools.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 130.008.  CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT AGREEMENT WITH PUBLIC OR
 1-8     PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL [COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
 1-9     COLLEGE CREDIT].  (a)  Under an agreement with a school district or
1-10     a private high school, a public junior college may offer a course
1-11     in which a student attending a high school operated by the school
1-12     district or attending the private high school may enroll and for
1-13     which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-14                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-15     academic requirements; and
1-16                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-17     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-18     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-19     college.
1-20           (b)  The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a
1-21     public or private high school student enrolled in a course for
1-22     which the student may receive joint credit under this section.
1-23           (c)  The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
1-24     public or private high school student in a course offered for joint
 2-1     high school and junior college credit under this section shall be
 2-2     included in the contact hours used to determine the junior
 2-3     college's proportionate share of the state money appropriated and
 2-4     distributed to public junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and
 2-5     130.0031, even if the junior college waives the tuition fee for the
 2-6     student under Subsection (b).
 2-7           (d)  For instances when state funding is provided to both a
 2-8     school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled
 2-9     in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the
2-10     commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education
2-11     shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate
2-12     duplication of state funding.
2-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-14     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-15     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-16     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-17     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.