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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