By Crabb H.B. No. 1565
77R5850 KSD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the admission of top high school graduates to general
1-3 academic teaching institutions.
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 five [10] percent of the student's high school graduating
1-11 class in one of the two school years preceding the academic year
1-12 for which the applicant is applying for admission and the applicant
1-13 graduated from a public or private high school in this state
1-14 accredited by a generally recognized accrediting organization or
1-15 from a high school operated by the United States Department of
1-16 Defense. To qualify for admission under this section, an applicant
1-17 must submit an application before the expiration of any application
1-18 filing deadline established by the institution and, if the
1-19 applicant graduated from a high school operated by the United
1-20 States Department of Defense, must be a Texas resident under
1-21 Section 54.052 or be entitled to pay tuition fees at the rate
1-22 provided for Texas residents under Section 54.058(d) for the term
1-23 or semester to which admitted.
1-24 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
2-1 beginning with admissions to general academic teaching institutions
2-2 for the 2002 fall semester.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-4 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-5 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-6 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-7 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.