Bill Text: TX HB1540 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to counseling regarding postsecondary education for public high school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1540 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1540-Introduced.html
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By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 1540 |
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relating to counseling regarding postsecondary education for | ||
public high school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.007(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) During the first school year a student is enrolled in a | ||
high school or at the high school level in an open-enrollment | ||
charter school, and again during each year of a student's | ||
enrollment in high school or at the high school level, a school | ||
counselor shall provide information about postsecondary education | ||
to the student and the student's parent or guardian. The | ||
information must include information regarding: | ||
(1) the importance of postsecondary education; | ||
(2) the advantages of earning an endorsement and a | ||
performance acknowledgment and completing the distinguished level | ||
of achievement under the foundation high school program under | ||
Section 28.025; | ||
(3) the disadvantages of taking courses to prepare for | ||
a high school equivalency examination relative to the benefits of | ||
taking courses leading to a high school diploma; | ||
(4) financial aid eligibility; | ||
(5) instruction on how to apply for federal financial | ||
aid; | ||
(6) the center for financial aid information | ||
established under Section 61.0776; | ||
(7) the automatic admission of certain students to | ||
general academic teaching institutions as provided by Section | ||
51.803; | ||
(8) the eligibility and academic performance | ||
requirements for the TEXAS Grant as provided by Subchapter M, | ||
Chapter 56; [ |
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(9) the availability of programs in the district under | ||
which a student may earn college credit, including advanced | ||
placement programs, dual credit programs, joint high school and | ||
college credit programs, and international baccalaureate programs; | ||
and | ||
(10) the importance of selecting a major or field of | ||
study before, or as soon as possible after, enrollment at a | ||
postsecondary educational institution and the potential | ||
consequences of delaying that decision, particularly if the student | ||
intends to transfer between postsecondary educational | ||
institutions. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |