By: West S.B. No. 585 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to assistance by certain public institutions of higher 1-2 education relating to admissions, financial aid, and testing. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 51.935 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 51.935. ASSISTANCE RELATING TO UNDERGRADUATE 1-7 ADMISSIONS, FINANCIAL AID, AND TESTING. (a) The governing board 1-8 of each general academic teaching institution shall establish an 1-9 office at the institution to assist applicants, potential 1-10 applicants, high school guidance counselors, and other interested 1-11 persons requesting assistance relating to: 1-12 (1) applying for admission to a bachelor's degree 1-13 program at the institution; 1-14 (2) applying for financial aid offered by or through 1-15 the institution or by an office or agency of this state or the 1-16 United States for attendance as an undergraduate student at the 1-17 institution; 1-18 (3) registering for an examination to be taken in 1-19 connection with admission to a bachelor's degree program at the 1-20 institution; or 1-21 (4) registering for an examination that may be taken 1-22 to receive undergraduate course credit at the institution or to 1-23 determine the skill or placement level of an applicant to or 1-24 student enrolled in a bachelor's degree program at the institution. 2-1 (b) The office may be operated in connection with the 2-2 admissions office or another existing office of the institution. 2-3 (c) This section does not require an institution to assist a 2-4 person in preparing to take an examination. 2-5 (d) In this section, "general academic teaching institution" 2-6 has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. 2-7 SECTION 2. A general academic teaching institution shall 2-8 establish the office required by Section 51.935, as added by this 2-9 Act, not later than January 1, 1996. 2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.