Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 to SB 333 as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Section 51.803,
Education Code (page 4, line 12), strike "Each" and substitute
"Subject to Subsection (f), each [Each]".
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, at the end of amended Section
51.803, Education Code (page 6, between lines 1 and 2), insert the
following:
(f) A general academic teaching institution shall reserve
for admissions under Subsection (a) not less than 50 percent of the
institution's enrollment capacity designated for first-time
undergraduate students. Subsection (a) does not apply to the
portion of the institution's enrollment capacity designated for
first-time undergraduate students that is not reserved for
admissions under Subsection (a). If the number of applicants who
qualify for automatic admission to a general academic teaching
institution under Subsection (a) exceeds the number of spaces
reserved under this subsection by the institution for admissions
under Subsection (a), the institution shall:
(1) offer admission to those applicants by percentile
rank according to graduating class standing based on grade point
average, beginning with the top percentile rank, until a sufficient
number of applicants have accepted admission offers to fill those
spaces reserved by the institution under this subsection for
admissions under Subsection (a), except that the institution must
offer admission to all applicants with the same percentile rank;
and
(2) after offering admission to applicants under
Subdivision (1), consider any remaining applicants qualified for
automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same manner as
other applicants for admission as first-time freshmen students in
accordance with Section 51.805.