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By:  Flores (Senate Sponsor - West)                               H.B. No. 1621
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2003; 
May 8, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Education; May 24, 2003, reported favorably, as amended, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 24, 2003, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                                By:  West


Amend H.B. No. 1621 by adding the following sections.                       
	SECTION __:  Chapter 130.123(e), Education Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 130.123(e)  In addition to the revenues, fees, and 
other resources authorized to be pledged to the payment of bonds 
issued hereunder, each board further shall be authorized to pledge 
irrevocably to such payment, out of the tuition charges required or 
permitted by law to be imposed at its institution or institutions, 
an amount not exceeding [$15] 25 percent of the tuition charges 
collected from each enrolled student for each [regular] semester or 
[and $7.50 from each enrolled student for each summer] term, and 
each board also shall be authorized to pledge to such payment all or 
any part of any grant, donation, or income received or to be 
received from the United States government or any other public or 
private source, whether pursuant to an agreement or otherwise.
	SECTION __:  Chapter 56.033(a), Education Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	Sec. 56.033(a)  The governing board of each institution of 
higher education, including the Texas State Technical College 
System, shall cause to be set aside:
		(1)  not less than 15 percent nor more than 20 percent 
out of each resident student's tuition charge under Section 54.051 
as provided by the General Appropriations Act for the applicable 
academic year;
		(2)  three percent out of each nonresident student's 
tuition charge under Section 54.051;
		(3)  not less than six percent nor more than 20 percent 
out of each resident student's hourly tuition charge exclusive of 
out of district charges, and $1.50 out of each nonresident 
student's hourly tuition charge, for academic courses at a public 
community or junior college; and
		(4)  not less than six percent nor more than 20 percent 
of hourly tuition charges exclusive of out of district charges for 
vocational-technical courses at a public community or junior 
college.


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.



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