Bill Text: TX HB2994 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to workforce continuing education offered by public junior colleges.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2994 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2994-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to workforce continuing education offered by public junior colleges.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2994 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2994-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Ashby, Clardy, Phillips, Stephenson, | H.B. No. 2994 | |
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relating to workforce continuing education offered by public junior | ||
colleges. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 130, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter L to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER L. WORKFORCE CONTINUING EDUCATION | ||
Sec. 130.301. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Adult" means a person who: | ||
(A) is 17 years of age and has been awarded a high | ||
school diploma or its equivalent; or | ||
(B) is 18 years of age or older, regardless of the | ||
person's previous educational experience. | ||
(2) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board. | ||
(3) "Workforce continuing education" means a program | ||
of instruction that: | ||
(A) is designed primarily for adults; and | ||
(B) is intended, on completion by a participant, | ||
to prepare the participant to qualify to apply for and accept an | ||
employment offer or a job upgrade within a specific occupational | ||
category or to bring the participant's knowledge or skills up to | ||
date on new developments in a particular occupation or profession. | ||
(4) "Workforce continuing education course" means a | ||
course of instruction in workforce continuing education that is | ||
approved by the coordinating board. | ||
Sec. 130.302. FORMULA FUNDING FOR WORKFORCE CONTINUING | ||
EDUCATION COURSES. Notwithstanding Section 130.003 or any other | ||
law, contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a student in a | ||
workforce continuing education course offered by a public junior | ||
college shall be included in the contact hours used to determine the | ||
college's proportionate share of state money appropriated and | ||
distributed to public junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and | ||
130.0031, regardless of whether: | ||
(1) the course is taken by a student who is not an | ||
adult under Section 130.303; or | ||
(2) the college waives all or part of the tuition or | ||
fees for the course under Section 130.304. | ||
Sec. 130.303. WORKFORCE CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR HIGH | ||
SCHOOL STUDENTS. A public junior college may enter into an | ||
agreement with a school district, organization, or other person | ||
that operates a high school to offer workforce continuing education | ||
courses to persons enrolled in a high school who are at least 16 | ||
years of age on the census date of the applicable course. For | ||
purposes of this section and Section 130.304, a person who is | ||
enrolled in a school that is not formally organized as a high school | ||
is considered to be enrolled in high school. | ||
Sec. 130.304. WAIVER OF TUITION AND FEES FOR CERTAIN | ||
WORKFORCE CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES. A public junior college | ||
may waive all or part of the tuition or fees charged to a student for | ||
a workforce continuing education course if: | ||
(1) the student: | ||
(A) is enrolled in high school; | ||
(B) is 16 years of age or older, has had the | ||
disabilities of minority removed, and is not enrolled in secondary | ||
education; or | ||
(C) is under the age of 18 and is incarcerated; | ||
(2) all or a significant portion of the college's costs | ||
for facilities, instructor salaries, equipment, and other expenses | ||
for the course are covered by business, industry, or other local | ||
public or private entities; or | ||
(3) the course is taught in a federal correctional | ||
facility and the facilities, equipment, supplies, and other | ||
expenses for the course are funded by the federal government. | ||
Sec. 130.305. RULES. The coordinating board shall adopt | ||
any rules the coordinating board considers necessary for the | ||
administration of this subchapter. In adopting those rules, the | ||
coordinating board shall use the negotiated rulemaking procedures | ||
under Chapter 2008, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |