Bill Text: TX SB2343 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to courses offered jointly by certain public junior colleges and independent school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2343 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2343-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to courses offered jointly by certain public junior colleges and independent school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Referred to Higher Education [SB2343 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2343-Comm_Sub.html
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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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 | ||
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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 [ |
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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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