78R8014 JSA-D

By:  Morrison                                                     H.B. No. 2508



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to exempting a student enrolled in a course for joint high 
school-junior college credit from the tuition charged by the junior 
college.
	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)  A [The junior college may waive the tuition fee for a] 
high school student enrolled in a course for which the student may 
receive joint credit under this section is exempt from tuition 
charged by the public junior college for the course.  The junior 
college may waive any fee charged for attending the course for the 
student.
	(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 the tuition fee for the student under 
Subsection (b)].
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made this Act applies beginning 
with the first semester of the 2003–2004 academic year that begins 
on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  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.