By Dukes H.B. No. 1387 77R14242 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the higher education uniform 1-3 admission policy to graduates of certain special high school 1-4 programs. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter U, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 51.8045 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 51.8045. GRADUATES OF CERTAIN SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOL 1-9 PROGRAMS. (a) For purposes of Sections 51.803 and 51.804 only, the 1-10 governing body of a school district may treat a high school magnet 1-11 program, academy, or other special program conducted by the school 1-12 district at a high school attended by high school students who are 1-13 not students of the special program as an independent high school 1-14 with its own graduating class separate from the graduating class of 1-15 other students attending the high school if: 1-16 (1) the special program was in operation in the 1-17 2000-2001 school year; 1-18 (2) the students of the special program are recruited, 1-19 selected, or admitted from among the students residing in the 1-20 attendance zones of not fewer than 10 regular high schools in the 1-21 district, including the high school at which the special program is 1-22 conducted; 1-23 (3) the students of the special program are selected 1-24 or admitted independently of and identified as a student body 2-1 separate from the other students of the high school; 2-2 (4) the students of the special program constitute not 2-3 less than 35 percent of the total number of students in the 2-4 graduating class at the high school at which the special program is 2-5 conducted; 2-6 (5) the students of the special program have a 2-7 curriculum different from that of the other students of the high 2-8 school, even if students of the special program and other students 2-9 of the high school attend some of the same classes; and 2-10 (6) a student graduating from the special program 2-11 receives a high school diploma that includes a reference to the 2-12 special program in describing the high school from which the 2-13 student graduated. 2-14 (b) This section does not apply to the manner in which the 2-15 members of a graduating class of the high school as a whole, 2-16 including graduates of the special program, are ranked by grade 2-17 point average for purposes other than admissions under Sections 2-18 51.803 and 51.804. 2-19 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 2-20 only to the admission of undergraduate students of a general 2-21 academic teaching institution to an academic term or semester for 2-22 which the general admission application deadline occurs on or after 2-23 the effective date of this Act. 2-24 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies to an 2-25 applicant for admission as an undergraduate student of a general 2-26 academic teaching institution who graduated before the effective 2-27 date of this Act from a high school at which a special high school 3-1 program described by Section 51.8045, Education Code, as added by 3-2 this Act, was conducted in the year the applicant graduated if the 3-3 school district treated the students of the special program as a 3-4 separate graduating class in that year substantially as provided by 3-5 Section 51.8045, Education Code, as added by this Act. 3-6 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 3-7 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 3-8 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 3-9 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 3-10 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.