By:  Madla, Truan                                       S.B. No. 82
           Van de Putte
                                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           (a)  A [Under an agreement with a school district, a] public
 1-9     junior college may offer a course in which a student attending a
1-10     high school operated in this state [by the school district] may,
1-11     with the written consent of the person operating the high school,
1-12     enroll and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-13                 (1)  course credit toward the student's high school
1-14     academic requirements; and
1-15                 (2)  course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-16     if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-17     eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-18     college.
1-19           (e)  In admitting or enrolling high school students in a
1-20     course offered for joint high school and junior college credit
1-21     under Subsection (a), a public junior college must apply the same
1-22     criteria and conditions to each student wishing to enroll in the
1-23     course without regard to whether the student attends a public
1-24     school or a private or parochial school, including a home school.
1-25     For purposes of this section, a student who attends a school that
 2-1     is not formally organized as a high school and is at least 16 years
 2-2     of age is considered to be attending a high school.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001 fall
 2-4     semester.