By: West S.B. No. 419
(Patrick)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting state funding to public junior colleges for
physical education courses offered for joint high school and junior
college credit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 130.008, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(c) The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
junior college credit under this section, excluding a course for
which the student attending high school may receive course credit
toward the physical education curriculum requirement under Section
28.002(a)(2)(C), shall be included in the contact hours used to
determine the junior college's proportionate share of the state
money appropriated and distributed to public junior colleges under
Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the junior college waives
all or part of the tuition or fees for the student under Subsection
(b).
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with funding for the
2011 fall semester.
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, 2011.