By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 2592
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to notification to students of the law that grants
 1-3     automatic college admission to certain students.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 28.026 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 28.026.  NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC COLLEGE ADMISSION.  The
 1-8     board of trustees of a school district shall require each high
 1-9     school in the district to post appropriate signs in each
1-10     counselor's office and each administrative office at the school
1-11     indicating the substance of Section 51.803 regarding automatic
1-12     college admission.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-14     school year.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.