Bill Text: TX HB802 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Referred to Higher Education [HB802 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB802-Introduced.html
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By: Murphy | H.B. No. 802 |
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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: | ||
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the general academic teaching institutions within the university | ||
system; and | ||
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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. |