Bill Text: TX SB860 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of career and technology education courses in certain partnership programs to provide high school dropout recovery.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-24 - Effective immediately [SB860 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB860-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 860 | ||
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| 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 [ |
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 860 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 18, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 860 passed the House on | ||
| May 8, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
