77R14242 E
By Dukes H.B. No. 1387
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1387:
By Rangel C.S.H.B. No. 1387
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.