76R16581 BDH-F By Shapleigh S.B. No. 510 Substitute the following for S.B. No. 510: By Sadler C.S.S.B. No. 510 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, in each principal's office, and in each 1-11 administrative building indicating the substance of Section 51.803 1-12 regarding automatic college admission. To assist in the 1-13 dissemination of this information, the school district shall: 1-14 (1) require that each high school counselor and class 1-15 advisor be provided a detailed explanation of the substance of 1-16 Section 51.803; 1-17 (2) require that each high school counselor and senior 1-18 class advisor explain to eligible students the substance of Section 1-19 51.803; and 1-20 (3) provide each eligible senior student under Section 1-21 51.803, at the commencement of a class's senior year, with a 1-22 written notification of the student's eligibility with a detailed 1-23 explanation of the substance of Section 51.803. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-2 school year. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.