SRC-MWN S.B. 752 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 752
77R7143 JSA-DBy: Barrientos
Education
3/13/2001
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Current law allows for guaranteed admission to state funded institutions of
higher learning for high school students in the top 10 percent of their
class. However, this law does not address special provisions for magnet
schools. As proposed, S.B. 752 provides school districts the option to
classify host schools students from magnet school students at a school
where a magnet and a host program are operated on one campus simultaneously
for the purpose of 10 percent automatic admission. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 51U, Education Code, by adding Section 51.8045,
as follows: 

Sec. 51.8045. APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER TO GRADUATES OF CERTAIN SPECIAL
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS. Provides that for purposes of Sections 51.803 and
51.804, a high school magnet program, academy, or other special program
conducted by a school district at a high school attended by high school
students who are not students of the special program is treated as an
independent high school with its own graduating class separate from the
graduating class of other students attending the high school if the
students of the special program are selected or admitted on the equal basis
from among students of or applicants from the entire school district; and
admitted independently of and identified as a student body separate from
other students of the high school; the students of the special program have
a curriculum different from that of the other students of the high school,
even if students of the special program and other students of the high
school attend some of the same classes; and a student graduating from the
special program receives a high school diploma that includes a reference to
the special program in describing the high school from which the student
graduated. 

SECTION 2. Provides that the change in law made by this Act applies only to
the admission of undergraduate students of a general academic teaching
institution to an academic term or semester for which the general admission
application deadline occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
Provides that the change in law made by this Act applies to the treatment
of a person who graduated from a special high school program described by
Section 51.8045, Education Code, as added by this Act, as an applicant for
admission as an undergraduate student of a general academic teaching
institution without regard to whether the person graduated from the special
high school program before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. 

SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2001.