Bill Text: TX HB2537 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to provide information to certain students on the availability of financial assistance for postsecondary education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2537-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2537 |
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relating to requiring public schools to provide information to | ||
certain students on the availability of financial assistance for | ||
postsecondary education. | ||
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 availability of education and training | ||
vouchers and tuition and fee waivers to attend an institution of | ||
higher education as provided by Section 54.366 for a student who is | ||
or was previously in the conservatorship of the Department of | ||
Family and Protective Services. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2537 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2537 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |