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	Amend CSSB 101 (House Committee Printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter D, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 54.202 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.202.  TOP 10 PERCENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.  
(a)  This section applies to a person who was admitted and enrolled 
under the automatic admission provisions of Section 51.803(c) or 
(d).
	(b)  Each general academic teaching institution shall exempt 
a person to whom this section applies from the payment of tuition 
and special course fees, lab fees, and student teaching fees.
	(c)  The exemption from tuition under Subsection (b) does not 
apply to designated tuition charged under Section 54.0513.
	(d)  In order to continue to receive an exemption under this 
section after the person has received an exemption under this 
section for two or more academic years or the equivalent, a person 
must:
		(1)  enroll for a full course load for an undergraduate 
student, as determined by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating 
Board, in an undergraduate degree or certificate program at a 
general academic teaching institution; and
		(2)  have a cumulative grade point average of at least 
2.5 on a four-point scale or the equivalent on all coursework 
previously attempted at institutions of higher education, if the 
person is enrolled in any academic year after the person's second 
academic year.
	(e)  The legislature shall account in the General 
Appropriations Act for the exemptions authorized by Subsection (b) 
in a way that provides a corresponding increase in the general 
revenue funds appropriated to the institution.
	(f)  The legislature may appropriate money to the Texas 
Higher Education Coordinating Board to be used to reimburse general 
academic teaching institutions for reducing as provided by this 
subsection the amount of designated tuition charged under Section 
54.0513 to persons receiving exemptions from tuition and fees under 
Subsection (b).  Based on the amount of appropriations under this 
subsection available for each academic year, the coordinating board 
shall estimate the amount by which the designated tuition charged 
under Section 54.0513 to each person who receives an exemption from 
tuition and fees under Subsection (b) in that academic year may be 
reduced from the amount that the applicable institution would 
otherwise charge the person.  The coordinating board shall 
distribute the amount of appropriations under this subsection 
available for the academic year to general academic teaching 
institutions in proportion to the number of semester credit hours 
for which the coordinating board estimates students will receive 
exemptions under Subsection (b) in that academic year at each 
institution.  Each general academic teaching institution that 
receives money under this section shall reduce the amount of 
designated tuition charged to each student who receives an 
exemption under Subsection (b) by the amount determined by the 
coordinating board for that academic year.