1-1     By:  Rangel, Oliveira, et al.                         H.B. No. 1678
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-4     May 14, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-5     Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-6     Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the creation of a uniform strategy to attract a student
1-10     population that reflects the population of the state at
1-11     institutions of higher education.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
1-14     amended by adding Section 61.086 to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 61.086.  UNIFORM RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STRATEGY.
1-16     (a)  The board shall develop and annually update a uniform strategy
1-17     to identify, attract, retain, and enroll students that reflect the
1-18     population of this state.
1-19           (b)  Each institution of higher education shall implement the
1-20     uniform strategy developed under Subsection (a). Each institution
1-21     shall report annually to the board the manner in which the
1-22     institution has implemented the uniform strategy.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-24     shall adopt a uniform strategy to identify, attract, retain, and
1-25     enroll students that reflect the population of this state as
1-26     required by Section 61.086, Education Code, as added by this Act,
1-27     not later than January 1, 2000.
1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.
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