HLS 15RS-822 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 136
BY REPRESENTATIVE WESLEY BISHOP
STUDENT/HOME STUDY: Requests that the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary
Education, in consultation with the Bd. of Regents, study the feasiblity and costs of
using state funds to pay for students in approved home study programs to participate
in certain dual enrollment programs
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation
3 with the Board of Regents, to study the feasibility and costs of using state funds to
4 pay for students in approved home study programs to participate in dual enrollment
5 programs established by the Board of Regents and to submit a written report of its
6 findings and conclusions, including any recommendations for legislation relative to
7 the issue, to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on
8 Education not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2016 Regular
9 Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
10 WHEREAS, R.S. 17:236.1 grants the State Board of Elementary and Secondary
11Education the authority to approve home study programs; and
12 WHEREAS, in R.S. 17:3137(A), the legislature finds that the dual enrollment
13program established by the Board of Regents enhances curricular options available to
14eligible high school students by providing an opportunity to enroll in postsecondary
15coursework creditable toward a career certificate or an associate or baccalaureate degree; and
16 WHEREAS, R.S. 17:3137(C) authorizes students participating in home study
17programs to participate in the Board of Regents' dual enrollment program but provides that
18state funds shall not be used to pay the tuition of such a student who is dually enrolled in a
19participating postsecondary education institution; and
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1 WHEREAS, increasing access for students in approved home study programs to
2participate in this dual enrollment program by removing possible funding obstacles would
3likely assist such students in their academic pursuits; and
4 WHEREAS, it is appropriate that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary
5Education, in consultation with the Board of Regents, conduct a thorough examination of
6the feasibility and costs of using state funds to pay for students in approved home study
7programs to participate in dual enrollment programs established by the Board of Regents.
8 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
9urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation
10with the Board of Regents, to study the feasibility and costs of using state funds to pay for
11students in approved home study programs to participate in dual enrollment programs
12established by the Board of Regents and to submit a written report of its findings and
13conclusions, including any recommendations for legislation relative to the issue, to the
14House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education not later than sixty
15days prior to the beginning of the 2016 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
16 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
17president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the state
18superintendent of education, the chairman of the Board of Regents, and the commissioner
19of higher education.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 136 Original 2015 Regular Session Wesley Bishop
Requests the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation with the Bd.
of Regents, to study the feasibility and costs of using state funds to pay for students in
approved home study programs to participate in certain dual enrollment programs and to
report its findings to the legislature at least 60 days prior to the 2016 R.S.
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