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