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House Bill 3826 |
House Author: Morrison |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Zaffirini |
House Bill 3826 amends the Education Code to require an applicant for admission to a public college or university to have completed the recommended or advanced high school program at a public high school or a curriculum that is equivalent in content and rigor at a high school to which those requirements do not apply or to have met the applicable ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks on the ACT or earned a score of at least 1,500 on the SAT or its equivalent. The bill provides an exception for an applicant who completes only the part of a curriculum specified above that was available to the student but who was unable to complete the rest of the curriculum solely because the required courses were unavailable to the student at the appropriate times because of factors not within the student's control. The bill applies these high school curriculum requirements to public college admissions generally, to policies that require public colleges and universities to admit automatically applicants graduating in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, and to policies at selected institutions that automatically admit applicants graduating in the top 25 percent of their high school classes.
The bill also establishes an automatic admissions policy for an undergraduate student who is the child of a public servant killed or fatally injured in the line of duty and who meets the minimum academic requirements, if any, established for this purpose by the public college or university where the student is applying, and it requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to establish certain standards regarding private high school accreditation and curriculum equivalency.