85R1961 KSD-F
By: Murphy H.B. No. 802
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that online admission application forms
for public institutions of higher education include a link to
certain postsecondary education and career opportunity
information.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.762, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) An electronic common admission application form
adopted under this section must include a prominent link to the
comparative postsecondary education and career opportunity
information maintained by the Texas Education Agency on the
agency's Internet website under Section 7.040.
SECTION 2. Section 51.763(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The form must:
(1) [shall] allow each applicant to:
(A) [(1)] apply electronically to one or more of
the general academic teaching institutions within the university
system; and
(B) [(2)] indicate preferences for admission
between those institutions; and
(2) include a prominent link to the comparative
postsecondary education and career opportunity information
maintained by the Texas Education Agency on the agency's Internet
website under Section 7.040.
SECTION 3. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
and the governing board of a university system shall comply with
Section 51.762(b-1) or 51.763(b)(2), Education Code, as added by
this Act, as applicable, as soon as practicable following the
effective date of this Act but not later than January 1, 2018.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.