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Senate Bill 1247 |
Senate Author: West, Royce |
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Effective: 6-17-05 |
House Sponsor: Brown, Fred |
Senate Bill 1247 amends the Education Code to revise eligibility criteria and certain other aspects of the Joint Admission Medical Program. Under the revised criteria, a student may become eligible for selection by the program's advisory council during the student's sophomore year rather than during the freshman year, must complete at least 27 semester credit hours during the student's freshman year, and must apply not later than September 1 of the fall semester of the student's sophomore year. The bill also gives the council greater discretion in allocating program openings among public colleges and universities after selecting two students from each public college or university and setting aside a number of program openings for students at private and independent schools.
The bill requires the council to identify potentially eligible students not later than the beginning of the first fall semester after the student's high school graduation and entitles a student thus identified who expresses an interest in the program to certain types of preadmission mentoring and academic and financial assistance.