DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 551 Original 2024 Regular Session Brass
Abstract: Expands the membership and functions of the Dual Enrollment Framework Task Force.
Present law provides for a high school career option program consisting of an academic major
(college prep. courses) and a career major (academic courses and modern vocational studies) and
allows students to dually enroll in a La. public postsecondary education institution or participate in
available business internships or work-study programs.
Present law provides for dual enrollment courses.
Present law provides the creation of the Dual Enrollment Framework Task Force under the
jurisdiction of the Bd. of Regents to make recommendations for the establishment of statewide dual
enrollment framework to provide access to dual enrollment courses to all qualified public high
school juniors and seniors.
Present law provides for the membership of the task force.
Proposed law provides for the addition of the president of the La. Assoc. for Career and Technical
Education or his designee to the members of the task force.
Present law requires the task force to make recommendations for the framework of dual enrollment
courses by reviewing existing laws, policies, and efforts in La. and other states on dual enrollment,
course choice, student remediation, articulation and transfer, and transition courses.
Proposed law retains present law and expands the required focus of recommendations to include
career pathways and technical high schools and opportunities for expanding career-relevant college
credit and industry-based credentials through dual enrollment, including by establishing regional
technical high schools operated by partnerships of one or more school districts and one or more
public colleges or universities.
(Amends R.S. 17:2922.1(B)(1)(intro. para.), (D)(1), and (E)(5)(a), (d), (e), and (f); Adds R.S.
17:2922.1(B)(1)(n) and (E)(5)(g))