EXPLANATION: Create a dual enrollment study to review and approve credit sites.

Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 1, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, page 299, after line 35, by adding an appropriately numbered proviso to read:

/(SDE: Dual Enrollment Study) Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Education, the department shall convene an appropriately representative working group of stakeholders to examine the current process utilized to review and approve dual enrollment credit sites at the sixteen technical colleges in the State and the four two-year institutions at the University of South Carolina. The commission shall report the working group's findings and recommendations, if any, to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and the Chairman of the House Education and Public Works Committee by June 30th of the current fiscal year./

Amend totals and titles to conform.