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. _______________________________ _______________________________ 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: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor