86R4977 SOS-D
 
  By: Bell of Montgomery H.B. No. 879
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the automatic admission to general academic teaching
  institutions of students who complete the early college education
  program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter U, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 51.8036 to read as follows:
         Sec. 51.8036.  AUTOMATIC ADMISSION OF APPLICANTS COMPLETING
  EARLY COLLEGE EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) In this section, "early
  college education program" means an early college education program
  established under Section 29.908.
         (b)  A general academic teaching institution shall admit an
  applicant for admission to the institution who:
               (1)  graduated from high school in one of the two school
  years preceding the academic year for which the applicant is
  applying for admission;
               (2)  completed the early college education program; and
               (3)  submits a completed application for admission
  before the expiration of any application filing deadline
  established by the institution.
         (c)  It is the responsibility of the applicant for admission
  under this section to:
               (1)  expressly and clearly claim in the application
  entitlement to admission under this section; and
               (2)  timely provide to the general academic teaching
  institution the documentation required by the institution to
  determine the student's entitlement to admission under this
  section.
         SECTION 2.  Section 51.8036, Education Code, as added by
  this Act, applies beginning with admissions to a general academic
  teaching institution for the 2020-2021 academic year. Admissions
  to a general academic teaching institution for an academic year
  before that academic year are governed by the law in effect
  immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2020.