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.
2-5 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-6 Amend S.B. No. 82 (senate engrossment) by striking lines 8
2-7 through 12 on page 1 (in amended Section 130.008(a), Education
2-8 Code) and substituting the following:
2-9 (a) Under an agreement with a school district or, in the
2-10 case of a private high school, with the organization or other
2-11 person that operates the high school, a public junior college may
2-12 offer a course in which a student attending a high school operated
2-13 in this state by the school district, organization, or other person
2-14 may enroll and for which the student may simultaneously receive
2-15 both:
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