By Berlanga H.B. No. 3058 75R5757 CAG-D 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 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall initiate and 1-7 conduct a study to examine, for the five years preceding the 1-8 effective date of this Act, the admission, enrollment, and 1-9 graduation rates of each public institution of higher education, 1-10 including major graduate schools, professional schools, and 1-11 doctoral programs. 1-12 (b) The study shall examine any disparity between the 1-13 composition of the state population, the population of students 1-14 that graduate from high school, and the population of persons who 1-15 are admitted to, enrolled in, or graduated from each institution of 1-16 higher education and from major graduate schools, professional 1-17 schools, and doctoral programs. 1-18 SECTION 2. REPORTS. The coordinating board shall report its 1-19 activities and the findings of the study to the governor, the 1-20 lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of 1-21 representatives not later than December 1, 1998. 1-22 SECTION 3. EXPIRATION. This Act expires January 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-24 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.