AN ACT 1-1 relating to notification to students of the law that grants 1-2 automatic college admission to certain students. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 28.026 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 28.026. NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC COLLEGE ADMISSION. The 1-7 board of trustees of a school district shall require each high 1-8 school in the district to post appropriate signs in each 1-9 counselor's office, in each principal's office, and in each 1-10 administrative building indicating the substance of Section 51.803 1-11 regarding automatic college admission. To assist in the 1-12 dissemination of this information, the school district shall: 1-13 (1) require that each high school counselor and class 1-14 advisor be provided a detailed explanation of the substance of 1-15 Section 51.803; 1-16 (2) require that each high school counselor and senior 1-17 class advisor explain to eligible students the substance of Section 1-18 51.803; and 1-19 (3) provide each eligible senior student under Section 1-20 51.803, at the commencement of a class's senior year, with a 1-21 written notification of the student's eligibility with a detailed 1-22 explanation of the substance of Section 51.803. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-24 school year. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 510 passed the Senate on May 3, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 510 passed the House, with amendment, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor