Bill Text: TX SB732 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of public junior colleges to offer certain courses and programs, including under agreements with independent school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Referred to Education [SB732 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB732-Introduced.html

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85R2549 KJE-D
By: Campbell S.B. No. 732

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of public junior colleges to offer
certain courses and programs, including under agreements with
independent school districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 29.402(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A public junior college may enter into an articulation
agreement to partner with one or more school districts located in a
county in which the service area of the junior college is wholly or
partly located [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.
SECTION 2. Section 130.008(g), Education Code, as added by
Chapter 1177 (S.B. 1004), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2015, is redesignated as Section 130.008(g-1), Education
Code, amended to conform to the repeal of Section 130.008(f),
Education Code, by Chapter 90 (H.B. 505), Acts of the 84th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, and further amended to read as
follows:
(g-1) [(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 130.008, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (g-2) and (g-3) to read as follows:
(g-2) A public junior college may enter into an agreement
with any school district located in a county in which the service
area of the junior college is wholly or partly located to offer one
or more courses as provided by this section.
(g-3) A high school student enrolled in a school district
may enroll in a course at any public junior college that has entered
into an agreement with the district to offer the course under this
section.
SECTION 4. Section 130.090(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The governing board of a junior college district may
contract with the governing board of any [an] independent school
district located in a county in which the junior college district's
service area is wholly or partly located for the junior college to
provide remedial programs for students enrolled in secondary
schools in the independent school district in preparation for
graduation from secondary school and entrance into college.
SECTION 5. The following provisions of the Education Code
are repealed:
(1) Section 29.402(a-1);
(2) Section 130.090(a-1); and
(3) Sections 130.251(d) and (d-1).
SECTION 6. (a) Section 130.008, Education Code, as amended
by this Act, applies beginning with the 2017 fall semester.
(b) The repeal by this Act of Sections 130.251(d) and (d-1),
Education Code, applies beginning with courses offered by a public
junior college for the 2018 spring semester.
SECTION 7. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
codes.
SECTION 8. 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, 2017.