| 1 | | - | By: Creighton, Bettencourt S.B. No. 2343 |
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| 1 | + | By: Creighton S.B. No. 2343 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read |
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| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; |
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| 4 | + | April 24, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; April 24, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 3 | 8 | | |
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| 4 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 11 | | relating to courses offered jointly by certain public junior |
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| 7 | 12 | | colleges and independent school districts. |
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| 8 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 10 | 15 | | amending Subsection (g-1) and adding Subsection (g-2) to read as |
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| 11 | 16 | | follows: |
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| 12 | 17 | | (g-1) A public junior college to which this subsection |
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| 13 | 18 | | applies [with a service area located wholly or partly in a county |
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| 14 | 19 | | with a population of more than three million] shall enter into an |
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| 15 | 20 | | agreement with each school district located wholly or partly in a |
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| 16 | 21 | | county in which the junior college district's service area is |
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| 17 | 22 | | wholly or partly located [with a population of more than three |
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| 18 | 23 | | million] to offer one or more courses as provided by this section. |
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| 19 | 24 | | A student enrolled in a school district to which this subsection |
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| 20 | 25 | | applies may enroll in a course at any junior college that has |
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| 21 | 26 | | entered into an agreement with the district to offer the course |
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| 22 | 27 | | under this subsection. |
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| 23 | 28 | | (g-2) Subsection (g-1) applies only to a public junior |
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| 24 | 29 | | college in: |
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| 25 | 30 | | (1) the Blinn College District; |
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| 26 | 31 | | (2) the Houston Community College System District; |
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| 27 | 32 | | (3) the Lee College District; |
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| 28 | 33 | | (4) the Lone Star College System District; or |
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| 29 | 34 | | (5) the San Jacinto College District. |
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| 30 | 35 | | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019 fall |
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| 31 | 36 | | semester. |
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| 32 | 37 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 33 | 38 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 34 | 39 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 35 | 40 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 36 | 41 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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