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11 By: Creighton S.B. No. 2314
2- (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2025; March 25, 2025, read
3- first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16;
4- April 10, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5- Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 10, 2025,
6- sent to printer.)
7-Click here to see the committee vote
8- COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2314 By: Creighton
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116 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
127 AN ACT
138 relating to the creation of an electronic platform and submission
14- portal, known as My Texas Future, to facilitate public high school
15- students' awareness of and application to institutions of higher
16- education using the electronic common admission application form.
9+ portal, known as My Texas Future, to facilitate the awareness and
10+ application of public high school students into institutions of
11+ higher education using the electronic common admission application
12+ form.
1713 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
18- SECTION 1. Section 28.025(c), Education Code, is amended to
14+ SECTION 1. Chapter 28.025(c), Education Code, is amended to
1915 read as follows:
2016 (c) A person may receive a diploma if the person is eligible
2117 for a diploma under Section 28.0251. In other cases, a student may
2218 graduate and receive a diploma only if:
2319 (1) the student successfully completes the curriculum
2420 requirements identified by the State Board of Education under
2521 Subsection (a) and complies with Sections 28.0256, 28.0257, and
2622 39.025; or
2723 (2) the student successfully completes an
2824 individualized education program developed under Section 29.005.
29- SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
30- amended by adding Section 28.0257 to read as follows:
31- Sec. 28.0257. DIRECT ADMISSIONS DATA SHARING OPT-IN
32- ELECTION FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. (a) In this section:
25+ SECTION 2. Chapter 28.0257, Education Code, is added to
26+ read as follows:
27+ Sec.28.0257. DIRECT ADMISSIONS DATA SHARING OPT-IN ELECTION
28+ FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. (a) In this section:
3329 (1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
3430 Education Coordinating Board.
3531 (2) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning
3632 assigned by Section 61.003.
3733 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), before graduating
38- from high school, each student must elect whether to opt in to
34+ from high school, each student must elect whether to opt-in to
3935 allowing the coordinating board to share the student's data and
4036 education records, as necessary, with institutions of higher
4137 education to allow the student to participate in the direct
4238 admissions program established by the Coordinating Board pursuant
43- to Section 61.0511(b)(2).
39+ to Education Code 61.0511(b)(2).
4440 (c) A student is not required to comply with Subsection (b)
4541 if:
4642 (1) The student's parent or other person standing in
4743 parental relation submits a signed form indicating that the parent
4844 or other person authorizes the student to decline to complete and
4945 submit information necessary to participate in a program offered
5046 under subsection (b);
5147 (2) The student signs and submits the form described
5248 by Subdivision (1) on the student's own behalf if the student is 18
5349 years of age or older or the student's disabilities of minority have
5450 been removed for general purposes under Chapter 31, Family Code; or
5551 (3) A school counselor authorizes in writing the
5652 student to decline to complete and submit the information necessary
5753 to participate in a program offered under subsection (b).
5854 (d) Each school district or open-enrollment charter school
5955 shall use a form adopted by the Coordinating Board, in consultation
60- with the Texas Education Agency, to allow a student to opt out
56+ with the Texas Education Agency, to allow a student to opt-out
6157 pursuant to subsection (c). The form shall:
6258 (1) Provide the student or the student's parent or
6359 other person standing in parental relation, as applicable, the
6460 opportunity to elect whether to share the student's data or
6561 education records, as necessary, with institutions of higher
6662 education to facilitate the student's participation in a program
6763 offered under subsection (b); and
6864 (2) Be made available in English, Spanish, and any
6965 other language spoken by a majority of the students enrolled in a
7066 bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B,
7167 Chapter 29, in the district or school.
72- SECTION 3. Section 51.763, Education Code, is amended by
73- adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
68+ SECTION 3. Subchapter C, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
69+ amended by adding subsection 51.763(d) to read as follows:
7470 (d) Each institution of higher education shall publish
7571 prominently on its admission application website a link to
7672 MyTexasFuture.Org or its successor electronic platform and provide
7773 notice to students that they may apply to the institution using the
7874 electronic common admission application form found in
7975 ApplyTexas.Org or via MyTexasFuture.Org.
8076 SECTION 4. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
8177 amended by adding Section 61.0511 to read as follows:
8278 Sec. 61.0511. Direct Admissions and Financial Aid Portal at
83- MYTEXASFUTURE.ORG. (a) The board shall create, maintain, and
84- administer an electronic platform and submission portal, known as
85- My Texas Future (MyTexasFuture.Org), to facilitate the awareness
86- and application of students into institutions of higher education.
79+ MyTexasFuture.Org.
80+ (a) The board shall create, maintain, and administer an
81+ electronic platform and submission portal, known as My Texas Future
82+ (MyTexasFuture.Org), to facilitate the awareness and application
83+ of students into institutions of higher education.
8784 (b) My Texas Future, or any successor electronic platform
8885 established pursuant to this section, shall include:
8986 (1) A link or direct submission portal to the
9087 electronic common admission application form adopted and
91- established pursuant to Subchapter S, Chapter 51;
92- (2) a direct admissions program that lists
93- institution's of higher education to which a student may be
94- directly admitted based on the student's profile and information;
88+ established pursuant to Section 51, Subchapter S;
89+ (2) A Direct Admission's program that lists
90+ institution of higher education to which a student may be directly
91+ admitted based on the student's profile and information;
9592 (3) To the greatest extent possible, a list of
9693 financial aid awards that a student may be eligible to receive based
9794 on the student's profile and information; and
9895 (4) The data required by Section 61.09022 to assist
99- students in assessing the value of postsecondary credentials by
96+ students in assessing the value of post-secondary credentials by
10097 program.
10198 (c) A Texas school district or an open-enrollment charter
10299 school shall as part of the high school registration process
103- annually notify, in a manner prescribed by board rule, each parent
104- or guardian of a student who has earned at least three high school
105- course credits or not later than the end of a student's first
106- semester of ninth grade:
100+ annually notify, in a manner prescribed by coordinating board rule,
101+ each parent or guardian of a student who has earned at least three
102+ high school course credits or not later than the end of a student's
103+ first semester of ninth grade:
107104 (1) Of the option to create or update annually a
108105 profile and account in My Texas Future;
109106 (2) That a student or their parent is permitted to
110107 update or revise their own profile in My Texas Future;
111108 (3) That a student or parent of a student who creates a
112- profile and account under this section, may opt out of one or more
109+ profile and account under this section, may opt-out of one or more
113110 programs offered under Subsection (b); and
114111 (4) Of the graduation requirement under Section
115112 28.0257 for a student or parent to indicate whether the student
116- wishes to opt in to allowing the board to share the student's data
113+ wishes to opt-in to allowing the board to share the student's data
117114 and educational records with institutions of higher education for
118115 the purpose of participating in the Direct Admissions Program
119116 established under Subsection (b)(2).
120- (d) The Texas Education Agency and the board shall jointly
121- prepare and post on their respective Internet websites a
122- publication that includes the information required to be provided
123- under Subsection (c) in a form that enables a school district or
124- open-enrollment charter school to reproduce the publication for
125- distribution under that subsection.
117+ (d) The Texas Education Agency and the Coordinating Board
118+ shall jointly prepare and post on their respective Internet
119+ websites a publication that includes the information required to be
120+ provided under subsection (c) in a form that enables a school
121+ district or open-enrollment charter school to reproduce the
122+ publication for distribution under that subsection.
126123 (e) The Texas Education Agency and each Texas public school
127124 district or open -enrollment charter school shall make the data
128- available to the board necessary to administer this section.
125+ available to the Coordinating Board necessary to administer this
126+ Section.
129127 (f) The board may adopt rules necessary to implement this
130128 section.
131129 (g) The board may share a student's contact information in
132130 MyTexasFuture.Org with an institution of higher education unless
133- the student opts out of sharing the student's contact information.
131+ the student opts-out of sharing the student's contact information.
134132 Any student information shared with an institution of higher
135133 education is confidential pursuant to subsection (l). The board
136- shall ensure that a student may opt out of sharing the student's
134+ shall ensure that a student may opt-out of sharing the student's
137135 contact information with an institution of higher education.
138136 (l) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as
139137 provided by this section, information that relates to a current,
140138 former, or prospective applicant or student of an educational
141139 institution and that is obtained, received, or held by the board for
142140 the purpose of administering this section or otherwise providing
143141 assistance with access to postsecondary education is confidential
144142 and excepted from disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code,
145143 and may only be released in conformity with the Family Educational
146144 Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g). The
147- board may withhold information prohibited from being disclosed
148- under this subsection without requesting a decision from the
149- attorney general under Subchapter G, Chapter 552, Government Code.
145+ Coordinating Board may withhold information prohibited from being
146+ disclosed under this subsection without requesting a decision from
147+ the attorney general under Subchapter G, Chapter 552, Government
148+ Code.
150149 SECTION 5. Section 61.0511, Education Code, as added by
151150 this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year.
152- SECTION 6. Section 28.025, Education Code, as amended by
153- this Act, and Section 28.0257, Education Code, as added by this Act,
154- apply beginning with the 2026-2027 academic year.
151+ SECTION 6. Subsections 28.025 and 28.0257, Education Code,
152+ as added by this Act, applies beginning with the 2026-2027 academic
153+ year.
155154 SECTION 7. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
156155 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
157156 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
158157 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
159158 Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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