83R9518 PAM-F
 
  By: Farney, Keffer, Paddie, Lucio III, H.B. No. 1784
      Longoria, et al.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the provision of career and technology education
  courses in certain partnership programs to provide high school
  dropout recovery.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 29.402, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  A [Beginning September 1, 2012, a] public junior college
  may enter into an articulation agreement to partner with one or more
  school districts located in the public junior college district to
  provide on the campus of the public junior college a dropout
  recovery program for students described by Subsection (b) to
  successfully complete and receive a diploma from a high school of
  the appropriate partnering school district.
         (c-1)  A public junior college under this section may partner
  with a public technical institute, as defined by Section 61.003, to
  provide, as part of the dropout recovery program curriculum, career
  and technology education courses that lead to industry or career
  certification.
         SECTION 2.  Section 29.403, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
         (c)  A public technical institute may receive from a
  partnering public junior college for each student enrolled in a
  career and technology education course as provided by Section
  29.402(c-1) an amount negotiated between the public technical
  institute and the partnering public junior college.
         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, 2013.