75R15501 CAG-D                          

         By West, et al.                                       S.B. No. 1419

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1419:

         By Cuellar                                        C.S.S.B. No. 1419

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to restrictions on the admission of certain persons

 1-3     promised or granted an athletic scholarship or similar financial

 1-4     assistance at a general academic teaching institution.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 51.9245 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec.  51.9245.  ADMISSION OF PERSON RECEIVING ATHLETIC

 1-9     SCHOLARSHIP.  (a)  In this section, "general academic teaching

1-10     institution" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.

1-11           (b)  A general academic teaching institution may not admit an

1-12     applicant who has been promised or granted an athletic scholarship,

1-13     grant, or similar financial assistance conditioned on the student's

1-14     participation in a sport, game, or other competition involving

1-15     substantial physical ability or physical skill for or on a team

1-16     organized or sponsored by the general academic teaching institution

1-17     that is funded by state revenue unless:

1-18                 (1)  for an applicant to enter as a freshman student,

1-19     the applicant's high school grade point average is equal to or

1-20     greater than the average high school grade point average of all

1-21     entering freshman students at the institution for the academic year

1-22     preceding the academic year for which the applicant seeks admission

1-23     to the institution; or

1-24                 (2)  for any other applicant, the applicant's

 2-1     cumulative college-level grade point average is equal to or greater

 2-2     than the average cumulative college-level grade point average of

 2-3     all undergraduate students enrolled at the institution in the

 2-4     preceding academic year.

 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

 2-6     applies only to the admission of a student on or after that date.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.