By Berlanga, Turner of Harris, Cuellar,               H.B. No. 3058

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a study of admission and graduation rates at

 1-3     institutions of higher education.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  STUDY IN ADMISSIONS AND GRADUATION RATES.  (a)

 1-6     The comptroller of public accounts shall initiate and conduct a

 1-7     study to examine, for the five years preceding the effective date

 1-8     of this Act, the admission, enrollment, and graduation rates of

 1-9     each public institution of higher education, including major

1-10     graduate schools, professional schools, and doctoral programs.

1-11           (b)  The study shall examine any disparity between the

1-12     composition of the state population, the population of students

1-13     that graduate from high school, and the population of persons who

1-14     are admitted to, enrolled in, or graduated from each institution of

1-15     higher education and from major graduate schools, professional

1-16     schools,   and doctoral programs.

1-17           (c)  The costs of the study shall be paid from funds

1-18     appropriated to the comptroller for that purpose.

1-19           SECTION 2.  REPORTS. The comptroller shall report the

1-20     comptroller's activities and the findings of the study to the

1-21     governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of

1-22     representatives not later than June 1, 1998.

1-23           SECTION 3.  EXPIRATION.  This Act expires January 1, 1999.

1-24           SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation

1-25     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.