H.B. No. 1336

AN ACT

relating to authorizing public junior colleges to offer courses for joint high school and junior college credit.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 130.008 to read as follows:

Sec. 130.008.  COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE CREDIT. (a) Under an agreement with a school district, a public junior college may offer a course in which a student attending a high school operated by the school district may enroll and for which the student may simultaneously receive both:

(1)  course credit toward the student's high school academic requirements for graduation; and

(2)  course credit as a student of the junior college, if the student has been admitted to the junior college or becomes eligible to enroll in and is subsequently admitted to the junior college.

(b)  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.

(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).

(d)  For instances when state funding is provided to both a school district and a public junior college for a student enrolled in courses offered by a junior college under Subsection (a), the commissioner of education and the commissioner of higher education shall jointly develop a mechanism to identify and eliminate duplication of state funding.

SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1336 was passed by the House on March 30, 1995, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1336 on May 9, 1995, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 1, 1 present, not voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1336 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 8, 1995, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

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Governor