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.