By Delco                                              H.B. No. 2793
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the provision by public institutions of higher
    1-3  education of information relating to the Texas academic skills
    1-4  program.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
    1-7  adding new Subsections (m) and (n) and renumbering the current
    1-8  subsection (m) to read as follows:
    1-9        (m)  A high school student who performs at or above a level
   1-10  on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test to be set by the
   1-11  board are exempt from this law.  This exemption will be in effect
   1-12  for three years from the date the TAAS is taken and the set score
   1-13  level is achieved.  Students enrolling for the first time in Texas
   1-14  public colleges and universities after the three year period has
   1-15  elapsed must conform to all provisions of this law.
   1-16        Entering or transferring students who have achieved a score
   1-17  to be set by the board on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the ACT
   1-18  Assessment are exempt from the requirements of this law.  This
   1-19  exemption will be in effect for five years from the date either the
   1-20  SAT or the ACT tests are taken and the set standard is achieved.
   1-21  Students enrolling for the first time in Texas public colleges and
   1-22  universities after the five year period has elapsed must conform to
   1-23  all provisions of this law.
    2-1        (n)  The board shall adopt rules necessary for the
    2-2  administration of this subchapter.
    2-3        <m> (o)  This section does not apply to a student located
    2-4  outside this state who enrolls in a course offered outside this
    2-5  state by an institution of higher education.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  SECTION 51.306(m), Education Code, as added by
    2-7  this Act, applies only to a student who applies for admission to a
    2-8  public institution of higher education, as defined by Section
    2-9  61.003, Education Code on or after the beginning the fall semester,
   2-10  1993.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-17  passage, and it is so enacted.