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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