Bill Text: TX HB2812 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the limit on junior college courses that a high school student may enroll in for dual credit and the calculation of average daily attendance for a school district or open-enrollment charter school.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2812 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2812-Enrolled.html
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| lating to the limit on junior college courses that a high school | ||
| student may enroll in for dual credit and the calculation of average | ||
| daily attendance for a school district or open-enrollment charter | ||
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| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.005, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) Subject to rules adopted by the commissioner under | ||
| Section 42.0052(b), time that a student participates in an | ||
| off-campus instructional program approved under Section 42.0052(a) | ||
| shall be counted as part of the minimum number of instructional | ||
| hours required for a student to be considered a full-time student in | ||
| average daily attendance for purposes of this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.0052 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.0052. OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAMS APPROVED FOR PURPOSES OF | ||
| AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE. (a) The commissioner may, based on | ||
| criteria developed by the commissioner, approve instructional | ||
| programs provided off campus by an entity other than a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school as a program in which | ||
| participation by a student of a district or charter school may be | ||
| counted for purposes of determining average daily attendance in | ||
| accordance with Section 42.005(h). | ||
| (b) The commissioner shall adopt by rule verification and | ||
| reporting procedures concerning time spent by students | ||
| participating in instructional programs approved under Subsection | ||
| (a). | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 130.008(f), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2812 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2812 on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2812 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
