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.