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.