By Menendez                                           H.B. No. 1145
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to courses offered by a public junior college for joint
 1-3     high school and junior college credit.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           Sec. 130.008.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR
 1-9     COLLEGE CREDIT.  (a)  A [Under an agreement with a school district,
1-10     a] public junior college may offer a course in which a student
1-11     attending a high school operated in this state [by the school
1-12     district] may, with the written consent of the person operating the
1-13     high school, enroll and for which the student may simultaneously
1-14     receive both:
1-15                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-16     academic requirements; and
1-17                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-18     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-19     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-20     college.
1-21           (e)  In admitting or enrolling high school students in a
1-22     course offered for joint high school and junior college credit
1-23     under Subsection (a), a public junior college must apply the same
1-24     criteria and conditions to each student wishing to enroll in the
 2-1     course without regard to whether the student attends a public
 2-2     school or a private or parochial school, including a home school.
 2-3     For purposes of this section, a student who attends a school that
 2-4     is not formally organized as a high school and is at least 16 years
 2-5     of age is considered to be attending a high school.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001 fall
 2-7     semester.