Bill Text: TX SB2131 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to efforts to facilitate the completion by students of undergraduate certificate and degree programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-26 - House appoints conferees-reported [SB2131 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2131-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to efforts to facilitate the completion by students of undergraduate certificate and degree programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-26 - House appoints conferees-reported [SB2131 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2131-Engrossed.html
By: West | S.B. No. 2131 |
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relating to requirements for providing postsecondary education | ||
counseling to high school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 33.007, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 33.007. COUNSELING REGARDING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION. | ||
(a) Each school counselor at an elementary, middle, or junior high | ||
school, including an open-enrollment charter school offering those | ||
grades, shall advise students and their parents or guardians | ||
regarding the importance of postsecondary education, coursework | ||
designed to prepare students for postsecondary education, and | ||
financial aid availability and requirements. | ||
(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 accessible through the | ||
database of required lower division courses for specific majors, as | ||
well as 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 advanced academic programs in | ||
the district under which a student may earn college credit, | ||
including advanced placement programs[ |
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baccalaureate programs; and | ||
(10) the availability of dual credit and joint high | ||
school and college credit programs, including the types of dual | ||
credit offered (core curriculum courses versus career and technical | ||
education courses) and the transferability and application of dual | ||
credit offerings to regional junior or community colleges, public | ||
technical colleges, and four-year colleges and universities. | ||
(c) Schools and districts shall post on their website and | ||
update annually the information articulated in Subsection (b)(10) | ||
related to dual credit and joint high school and college credit | ||
programs. | ||
(d) Each school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
school, in consultation with school counselors employed by the | ||
district or school, shall develop a procedure for documenting on | ||
each student's transcript any postsecondary advising services | ||
provided to the student under this section, including the name of | ||
the person or counseling provider who provided the services. | ||
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counselor certified under the rules of the State Board for Educator | ||
Certification shall explain the requirements of automatic | ||
admission to a general academic teaching institution under Section | ||
51.803 to each student enrolled in a high school or at the high | ||
school level in an open-enrollment charter school who has a grade | ||
point average in the top 25 percent of the student's high school | ||
class. | ||
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. |