75R10123 JSA-D By Goolsby H.B. No. 858 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 858: By Rangel C.S.H.B. No. 858 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing for open enrollment for a portion of those 1-3 persons admitted as undergraduates at certain public institutions 1-4 of higher education. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 51, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-7 Subchapter S to read as follows: 1-8 SUBCHAPTER S. ADMISSIONS 1-9 Sec. 51.761. DEFINITIONS. The definitions provided by 1-10 Section 61.003 apply to this subchapter. 1-11 Sec. 51.762. OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATES. (a) Each 1-12 general academic teaching institution shall admit a portion of the 1-13 undergraduate students admitted to the institution in each academic 1-14 year through open enrollment as provided by this section. 1-15 (b) The portion of the undergraduates admitted each academic 1-16 year that must be admitted to an institution through open 1-17 enrollment is determined as follows: 1-18 (1) for an institution with a total enrollment for the 1-19 preceding academic year of 30,000 or more, one percent of the 1-20 undergraduates admitted must be admitted through open enrollment; 1-21 (2) for an institution with a total enrollment for the 1-22 preceding academic year of 10,000 or more but less than 30,000, two 1-23 percent of the undergraduates admitted must be admitted through 1-24 open enrollment; and 2-1 (3) for an institution with a total enrollment for the 2-2 preceding academic year of less than 10,000, two percent of the 2-3 undergraduates admitted must be admitted through open enrollment. 2-4 (c) The institution shall admit through open enrollment each 2-5 applicant who has earned a high school diploma or the equivalent 2-6 and who is not admitted under another category or process. If the 2-7 number of applicants who have earned a high school diploma or the 2-8 equivalent and who are not admitted under another category or 2-9 process exceeds the number of available spaces for admission, the 2-10 institution by lot shall select the appropriate number of 2-11 applicants to admit under this subsection. The institution may 2-12 require a student admitted under this subsection to enter the 2-13 institution in a summer term. 2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 2-15 applies to admissions for academic years beginning with the 2-16 1998-1999 academic year. 2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.