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.
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