Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 510 amends the Education Code to require school district boards of trustees to require district high schools to post signs in each counselor's office, principal's office, and administration building informing students about the state's automatic college admissions law for students in the top 10 percent of each graduating class. The act also requires a district to provide each high school counselor and class advisor with a detailed explanation of the law, to require that each counselor and senior class advisor explain the law to eligible students, and to provide each eligible senior at the beginning of the student's senior year with written notice of the student's eligibility and a detailed explanation of the law.

            Senate Bill 510 applies beginning with the 1999-2000 school year.