By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1753
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the automatic admission of certain high school
1-2 graduates to public institutions of higher education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 51.803(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) Each general academic teaching institution shall admit
1-7 an applicant for admission to the institution as an undergraduate
1-8 student if the applicant graduated in one of the two school years
1-9 preceding the academic year for which the applicant is applying for
1-10 admission from a public or private high school in this state
1-11 accredited by a generally recognized accrediting organization with
1-12 a grade point average in the top five [10] percent of the student's
1-13 high school graduating class. To qualify for admission under this
1-14 section, an applicant must submit an application before the
1-15 expiration of any application filing deadline established by the
1-16 institution.
1-17 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
1-18 beginning with admissions to institutions of higher education for a
1-19 semester or other academic term that follows the 1999 fall
1-20 semester.