BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 3585 |
By: Turner |
Higher Education |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties note the role high school counselors and private and independent institutions of higher education play with regard to the state common admission application system and suggest that they deserve representation on the advisory committee that assists the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in relation to that system. C.S.H.B. 3585 seeks to provide that representation and provide for certain changes relating to common admission application forms for institutions of higher education.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 3585 repeals the Education Code provision authorizing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt by rule a common admission application form for use by a person seeking admission as an undergraduate transfer student to a general academic teaching institution; an electronic or printed format common admission application form for use by a person seeking admission as an undergraduate transfer student to a public institution of higher education that admits undergraduate transfer students, other than a general academic teaching institution; and an electronic common admission application form for use by a person seeking admission as a transfer student to an undergraduate nursing education program at an institution of higher education if the coordinating board determines that adoption of the form would be cost‑effective for nursing schools. The bill amends the Education Code with regard to the coordinating board's required adoption of common admission application forms to remove language restricting use of certain of those forms to a person seeking admission specifically as a freshman student and to exclude use of the adopted electronic common admission application form by a person seeking admission to a medical and dental unit. The bill removes the specification that the common admission application form required to be adopted by the governing board of a university system for use by persons seeking admission to one or more of the general academic teaching institutions within the university system is for use by a person specifically seeking freshman or undergraduate transfer admission.
C.S.H.B. 3585 revises the manner in which the coordinating board is required to adopt the common admission application forms by including representatives of private or independent institutions of higher education among the members of the advisory committee with whose assistance the coordinating board adopts the forms, by including high school counselors as a party with whose assistance the coordinating board adopts the forms, and by removing the coordinating board's consultation of all institutions of higher education that admit freshman-level students. The bill specifies that the common admission application forms for which the coordinating board is required to ensure that copies of the forms and information for the use of the forms are available in electronic format to the appropriate personnel at each public high school are forms appropriate for use by a person seeking admission to an institution of higher education as a freshman student. The bill applies beginning with applications for admission to institutions of higher education for the 2018-2019 academic year.
C.S.H.B. 3585 repeals Section 51.762(b), Education Code.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 3585 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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