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)  Under an agreement with a school district or, in the
 1-9     case of a private high school, with the organization or other
1-10     person that operates the high school, a public junior college may
1-11     offer a course in which a student attending a high school operated
1-12     in this state by the school district, organization, or other person
1-13     may enroll and for which the student may simultaneously receive
1-14     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
1-25     course without regard to whether the student attends a public
 2-1     school or a private or parochial school, including a home school.
 2-2     For purposes of this section, a student who attends a school that
 2-3     is not formally organized as a high school and is at least 16 years
 2-4     of age is considered to be attending a high school.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001 fall
 2-6     semester.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 82 passed the Senate on
         February 14, 2001, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate
         concurred in House amendment on May 24, 2001, by a viva-voce vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 82 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 16, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
         Nays 0, two present, not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                      Date
         _______________________________
                    Governor