By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 1678
         76R7020 CAG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of a uniform strategy to attract a student
 1-3     population that reflects the population of the state at
 1-4     institutions of higher education.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 61.086 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 61.086.  UNIFORM RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STRATEGY.
 1-9     (a)  The board shall develop and annually update a uniform strategy
1-10     to identify, attract, retain, and enroll students that reflect the
1-11     population of this state.
1-12           (b)  Each institution of higher education shall implement the
1-13     uniform strategy developed under Subsection (a). Each institution
1-14     shall report annually to the board the manner in which the
1-15     institution has implemented the uniform strategy.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-17     shall adopt a uniform strategy to identify, attract, retain, and
1-18     enroll students that reflect the population of this state as
1-19     required by Section 61.086, Education Code, as added by this Act,
1-20     not later than January 1, 2000.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.