By Dukes                                              H.B. No. 1387
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                                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.  APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER TO GRADUATES OF
 1-9     CERTAIN SPECIAL HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS. For purposes of Sections
1-10     51.803 and 51.804, a high school magnet program, academy, or other
1-11     special program conducted by a school district at a high school
1-12     attended by high school students who are not students of the
1-13     special program is treated as an independent high school with its
1-14     own graduating class separate from the graduating class of other
1-15     students attending the high school if:
1-16                 (1)  the students of the special program are selected
1-17     or admitted independently of and are identified as a student body
1-18     separate from the other students of the high school;
1-19                 (2)  the students of the special program have a
1-20     curriculum different from that of the other students of the high
1-21     school, even if students of the special program and other students
1-22     of the high school attend some of the same classes; and
1-23                 (3)  a student graduating from the special program
1-24     receives a high school diploma that includes a reference to the
 2-1     special program in describing the high school from which the
 2-2     student graduated.
 2-3           SECTION 2. (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
 2-4     only to the admission of undergraduate students of a general
 2-5     academic teaching institution to an academic term or semester for
 2-6     which the general admission application deadline occurs on or after
 2-7     the effective date of this Act.
 2-8           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies to the
 2-9     treatment of a person who graduated from a special high school
2-10     program described by Section 51.8045, Education Code, as added by
2-11     this Act, as an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student
2-12     of a general academic teaching institution without regard to
2-13     whether the person graduated from the special high school program
2-14     before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
2-15           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-16     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-17     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-18     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-19     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.