Bill Text: TX SB1004 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to courses and programs offered jointly by certain public junior colleges and independent school districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [SB1004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1004-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1004 | ||
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| relating to courses and programs offered jointly by certain public | ||
| junior colleges and independent school districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 29.402, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) A public junior college with a service area located | ||
| wholly or partly in a county with a population of more than three | ||
| million may enter into an articulation agreement described by | ||
| Subsection (a) with any school district located wholly or partly in | ||
| a county with a population of more than three million. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (g) A public junior college with a service area located | ||
| wholly or partly in a county with a population of more than three | ||
| million shall enter into an agreement with each school district | ||
| located wholly or partly in a county with a population of more than | ||
| three million to offer one or more courses as provided by this | ||
| section. A student enrolled in a school district to which this | ||
| subsection applies may enroll in a course at any junior college that | ||
| has entered into an agreement with the district to offer the course | ||
| under this subsection. Subsection (f) does not apply to a student | ||
| who seeks to enroll in a course under this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 130.086, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (d-1) Subsection (d) does not apply to a course offered by a | ||
| public junior college with a service area located wholly or partly | ||
| in a county with a population of more than three million for high | ||
| school students enrolled in a school district located wholly or | ||
| partly in a county with a population of more than three million. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 130.090, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The governing board of a junior college district | ||
| located wholly or partly in a county with a population of more than | ||
| three million may contract to provide remedial programs under | ||
| Subsection (a) with the governing board of any independent school | ||
| district located wholly or partly in a county with a population of | ||
| more than three million. | ||
| SECTION 5. Section 130.008(g), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2016 spring semester. | ||
| SECTION 6. 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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 1004 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4; and that the | ||
| Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2015, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1004 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, | ||
| Nays 5, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
