1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 82
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 13, 2000; January 10, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 February 8, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 7, Nays 0; February 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to courses offered by a public junior college for joint
1-9 high school and junior college credit.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by
1-12 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (a) A [Under an agreement with a school district, a] public
1-15 junior college may offer a course in which a student attending a
1-16 high school operated in this state [by the school district] may,
1-17 with the written consent of the person operating the high school,
1-18 enroll and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:
1-19 (1) course credit toward the student's high school
1-20 academic requirements; and
1-21 (2) course credit as a student of the junior college,
1-22 if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes
1-23 eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior
1-24 college.
1-25 (e) In admitting or enrolling high school students in a
1-26 course offered for joint high school and junior college credit
1-27 under Subsection (a), a public junior college must apply the same
1-28 criteria and conditions to each student wishing to enroll in the
1-29 course without regard to whether the student attends a public
1-30 school or a private or parochial school, including a home school.
1-31 For purposes of this section, a student who attends a school that
1-32 is not formally organized as a high school and is at least 16 years
1-33 of age is considered to be attending a high school.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2001 fall
1-35 semester.
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