1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 510 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 15, 1999; February 16, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 April 26, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 26, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 510 By: West 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to notification to students of the law that grants 1-11 automatic college admission to certain students. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 28.026 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 28.026. NOTICE OF AUTOMTATIC COLLEGE ADMISSION. The 1-16 board of trustees of a school district shall require each high 1-17 school in the district to post appropriate signs in each 1-18 counselor's office and each administrative office at the school 1-19 indicating the substance of Section 51.803 regarding automatic 1-20 college admission. To assist in the dissemination of this 1-21 information, the school district shall: 1-22 (1) require that each high school counselor and class 1-23 advisor be provided a detailed explanation of the substance of 1-24 Section 51.803; 1-25 (2) require that each high school counselor and senior 1-26 class advisor explain to eligible students the substance of Section 1-27 51.803; and 1-28 (3) provide each eligible senior student under Section 1-29 51.803, at the commencement of a class's senior year, with a 1-30 written notification of the student's eligibility with a detailed 1-31 explanation of the substance of Section 51.803. 1-32 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-33 school year. 1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-40 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-41 * * * * *