By Wilson H.B. No. 3073 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the admission of scholarship athletes to institutions 1-3 of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.9245, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) For purposes of this section, use of high school class 1-8 rank as an admissions criterion for entering freshman is considered 1-9 to be use of a minimum high school grade point average for that 1-10 purpose. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately and applies 1-12 only to admission of a student on or after its effective date. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from an after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.