By: Creighton S.B. No. 2343
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
April 24, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 24, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to courses offered jointly by certain public junior
colleges and independent school districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (g-1) and adding Subsection (g-2) to read as
follows:
(g-1) A public junior college to which this subsection
applies [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 in which the junior college district's service area is
wholly or partly located [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.
(g-2) Subsection (g-1) applies only to a public junior
college in:
(1) the Blinn College District;
(2) the Houston Community College System District;
(3) the Lee College District;
(4) the Lone Star College System District; or
(5) the San Jacinto College District.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019 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, 2019.
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