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Amend CSSB 101 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Subsection (d), 
Section 51.803, Education Code (page 2, lines 19 through 22), 
strike added Subdivision (d)(1) and renumber the remaining 
subdivisions accordingly.
	(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to 
the bill and renumber the remaining SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	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 only applies to a person who qualifies for automatic 
admission under Section 51.803(a).
	(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 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.
	SECTION __.  The change in law made by this Act in adding 
Section 54.202, Education Code, applies beginning with tuition, 
fees, and other charges for the 2008 fall semester.  Tuition, fees, 
and other charges for a term or semester before the 2008 fall 
semester are covered by the law in effect immediately before the 
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in 
effect for that purpose.