SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 553
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BENTLEY.
Pre-filed December 1, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 12, 1998, and referred to the Committee on Education.
Reported from the Committee February 2, 1998, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 18, 1998. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2335.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 167.223, RSMo 1994, relating to postsecondary course options, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 167.223, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 167.223, to read as follows:
167.223. 1. Public high schools may, in cooperation with Missouri public community colleges and public or private four-year colleges and universities, offer postsecondary course options to high school [juniors and seniors] students. A postsecondary course option allows eligible students to attend vocational or academic classes on a college or university campus and receive both high school and college credit upon successful completion of the course.
2. For purposes of state aid, the pupil's resident district shall continue to count the pupil in the average daily attendance of such resident district for any time the student is attending a postsecondary course.
3. Any pupil enrolled in a community college under a postsecondary course option shall be considered a resident student for the purposes of calculating state aid to the community college.
4. Community colleges and four-year colleges and universities may charge reasonable fees for pupils enrolled in courses under a postsecondary course option. Such fees may be paid by the district of residence or by the pupil, as determined by the agreement between the district of residence and the college or university.