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.
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             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:
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                     Date
         _______________________________
                   Governor