Bill Text: TX HB879 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the automatic admission to general academic teaching institutions of students who complete the early college education program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB879 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB879-Introduced.html
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By: Bell of Montgomery | H.B. No. 879 |
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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. |