By Barrientos                                          S.B. No. 752
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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:
1-17                       (A)  selected or admitted on an equal basis from
1-18     among students of or applicants from the entire school district;
1-19     and
1-20                       (B)  admitted independently of and identified as
1-21     a student body separate from the other students of the high school;
1-22                 (2)  the students of the special program have a
1-23     curriculum different from that of the other students of the high
1-24     school, even if students of the special program and other students
 2-1     of the high school attend some of the same classes; and
 2-2                 (3)  a student graduating from the special program
 2-3     receives a high school diploma that includes a reference to the
 2-4     special program in describing the high school from which the
 2-5     student graduated.
 2-6           SECTION 2. (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
 2-7     only to the admission of undergraduate students of a general
 2-8     academic teaching institution to an academic term or semester for
 2-9     which the general admission application deadline occurs on or after
2-10     the effective date of this Act.
2-11           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies to the
2-12     treatment of a person who graduated from a special high school
2-13     program described by Section 51.8045, Education Code, as added by
2-14     this Act, as an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student
2-15     of a general academic teaching institution without regard to
2-16     whether the person graduated from the special high school program
2-17     before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
2-18           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-19     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-20     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-21     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-22     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.