By Morrison, et al. H.B. No. 1804
76R8556 KEL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the automatic admission to certain public institutions
1-3 of higher education of certain graduates of high schools operated
1-4 by the United States Department of Defense.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 51.803(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) Each general academic teaching institution shall admit
1-9 an applicant for admission to the institution as an undergraduate
1-10 student if the applicant graduated with a grade point average in
1-11 the top 10 percent of the student's high school graduating class in
1-12 one of the two school years preceding the academic year for which
1-13 the applicant is applying for admission and the applicant graduated
1-14 from a public or private high school in this state accredited by a
1-15 generally recognized accrediting organization or from a high school
1-16 operated by the United States Department of Defense [with a grade
1-17 point average in the top 10 percent of the student's high school
1-18 graduating class]. To qualify for admission under this section, an
1-19 applicant must submit an application before the expiration of any
1-20 application filing deadline established by the institution and, if
1-21 the applicant graduated from a high school operated by the United
1-22 States Department of Defense, must be a Texas resident under
1-23 Section 54.052 or be entitled to pay tuition fees at the rate
1-24 provided for Texas residents under Section 54.058(d) for the term
2-1 or semester to which admitted.
2-2 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
2-3 beginning with admissions for the 2000 fall semester.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.