By Morrison H.B. No. 1804
76R6598 KEL-D
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.