Bill Text: TX HB2812 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the limit on junior college courses that a high school student may enroll in for dual credit and the calculation of average daily attendance for a school district or open-enrollment charter school.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2812 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2812-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 2812
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  re
  lating to the limit on junior college courses that a high school
  student may enroll in for dual credit and the calculation of average
  daily attendance for a school district or open-enrollment charter
  school.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.005, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (h)  Subject to rules adopted by the commissioner under
  Section 42.0052(b), time that a student participates in an
  off-campus instructional program approved under Section 42.0052(a)
  shall be counted as part of the minimum number of instructional
  hours required for a student to be considered a full-time student in
  average daily attendance for purposes of this section.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 42.0052 to read as follows:
         Sec. 42.0052.  OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAMS APPROVED FOR PURPOSES OF
  AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.  (a) The commissioner may, based on
  criteria developed by the commissioner, approve instructional
  programs provided off campus by an entity other than a school
  district or open-enrollment charter school as a program in which
  participation by a student of a district or charter school may be
  counted for purposes of determining average daily attendance in
  accordance with Section 42.005(h).
         (b)  The commissioner shall adopt by rule verification and
  reporting procedures concerning time spent by students
  participating in instructional programs approved under Subsection
  (a).
         SECTION 3.  Section 130.008(f), Education Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 4.  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, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2812 was passed by the House on May 5,
  2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 2812 on May 26, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 1,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2812 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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