1-1     By:  Morrison, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)   H.B. No. 1804
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 1999;
 1-3     April 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Veteran Affairs and Military Installations; May 11, 1999, reported
 1-5     favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 11, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the automatic admission to certain public institutions
1-10     of higher education of certain graduates of high schools operated
1-11     by the United States Department of Defense.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 51.803(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-14     read as follows:
1-15           (a)  Each general academic teaching institution shall admit
1-16     an applicant for admission to the institution as an undergraduate
1-17     student if the applicant graduated with a grade point average in
1-18     the top 10 percent of the student's high school graduating class in
1-19     one of the two school years preceding the academic year for which
1-20     the applicant is applying for admission and the applicant graduated
1-21     from a public or private high school in this state accredited by a
1-22     generally recognized accrediting organization or from a high school
1-23     operated by the United States Department of Defense [with a grade
1-24     point average in the top 10 percent of the student's high school
1-25     graduating class].  To qualify for admission under this section, an
1-26     applicant must submit an application before the expiration of any
1-27     application filing deadline established by the institution and, if
1-28     the applicant graduated from a high school operated by the United
1-29     States Department of Defense, must be a Texas resident under
1-30     Section 54.052 or be entitled to pay tuition fees at the rate
1-31     provided for Texas residents under Section 54.058(d) for the term
1-32     or semester to which admitted.
1-33           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-34     beginning with admissions for the 2000 fall semester.
1-35           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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