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         By McClendon                                          H.B. No. 1266
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1266:
         By Goolsby                                        C.S.H.B. No. 1266
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the automatic admission of certain undergraduate
 1-3     transfer students.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 51.801, Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 51.801.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter, "general
 1-8     academic teaching institution," "governing board," "medical and
 1-9     dental unit," "public junior college," "public technical
1-10     institute," and "university system" have the meanings assigned by
1-11     Section 61.003.
1-12           SECTION 2.  Subchapter S, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 51.8065 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 51.8065.  AUTOMATIC ADMISSION:  UNDERGRADUATE TRANSFER
1-15     STUDENTS.  (a)  Each general academic teaching institution shall
1-16     admit an applicant for admission to the institution as an
1-17     undergraduate transfer student if in the year preceding the
1-18     academic year for which the applicant is applying for admission
1-19     under this section the applicant:
1-20                 (1)  received a degree from a public junior college or
1-21     public technical institute; and
1-22                 (2)  completed the degree program with a cumulative
1-23     grade point average of at least a 3.0 on a four-point scale or the
1-24     equivalent.
 2-1           (b)  To qualify for admission under this section, an
 2-2     applicant must submit an application before the expiration of any
 2-3     application filing deadline established by the institution.
 2-4           (c)  After admitting an applicant under this section who has
 2-5     earned an associate of applied science degree, the institution may
 2-6     review the applicant's record and any other factor the institution
 2-7     considers appropriate to determine whether the applicant may
 2-8     require additional preparation for college-level work or would
 2-9     benefit from inclusion in a retention program.  The institution may
2-10     require a student so identified to enroll during the summer
2-11     immediately after the student is admitted under this section to
2-12     participate in appropriate enrichment courses and orientation
2-13     programs.  This section does not prohibit a student who is not
2-14     determined to need additional preparation for college-level work
2-15     from enrolling, if the student chooses, during the summer
2-16     immediately after the student is admitted under this section.
2-17           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
2-18     beginning with admissions for the 2000 fall semester.
2-19           (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and each
2-20     general academic teaching institution shall adopt rules or policies
2-21     relating to the admission of students under Section 51.8065,
2-22     Education Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1,
2-23     2000.
2-24           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.