By: Bivins S.B. No. 150 97S0076/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to a common admission application form at certain 1-2 institutions of higher education. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 51.942 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 51.942. COMMON ADMISSION APPLICATION FORM. (a) As 1-7 used in this section, "general academic teaching institution," 1-8 "governing board," and "university system" have the meanings 1-9 assigned by Section 61.003. 1-10 (b) The governing board of a university system shall adopt a 1-11 common admission application form to be used by any person seeking 1-12 undergraduate admission to one or more of the general academic 1-13 teaching institutions within the university system. 1-14 (c) The form shall be filed by all such applicants at one 1-15 central location designated by the governing board. 1-16 (d) The form shall allow each applicant to: 1-17 (1) apply to one or more of the general academic 1-18 teaching institutions within the university system; and 1-19 (2) indicate preferences for admission between those 1-20 institutions. 1-21 (e) The governing board may not charge an applicant more 1-22 than one fee for the filing of a common admission application form. 1-23 SECTION 2. The common admission application form and uniform 2-1 fee required by this Act shall be used for all undergraduate 2-2 applications for admission to general academic teaching 2-3 institutions within a university system beginning with the fall 2-4 semester of 1998. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.