78R7153 JSA-D


By:  Flores                                                       H.B. No. 1621


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to authorizing a public junior college to waive a portion of the tuition and fees for a student enrolled in a course for joint high school-junior college credit. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Sections 130.008(b) and (c), Education Code, are amended to read as follows: (b) The junior college may waive all or part of the tuition and fees [fee] for a high school student enrolled in a course for which the student may receive joint credit under this section. (c) The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a high school student in a course offered for joint high school and junior college credit under this section shall be included in the contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the junior college waives all or part of the tuition or fees [fee] for the student under Subsection (b). SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2003.