HBA-JRA H.B. 3290 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3290
By: Greenberg
Public Education
4/7/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, the Education Code authorizes a public junior college to waive
tuition for credit courses that qualify for joint credit from a high school
and the junior college.  However, the course is only eligible for joint
credit if it applies towards the student's high school graduation
requirements.  H.B. 3290 provides that any junior college course that meets
the student's high school academic requirements is eligible for joint
credit regardless of whether it is required for graduation, thereby
authorizing the junior college to waive tuition for more courses. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 130.008, Education Code, to authorize a high
school student to simultaneously receive course credit from a public junior
college toward the student's high school academic requirements, rather than
graduation requirements, and as a student of the junior college. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.