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Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 (floor substitute) by
Representative Branch to CSSB 175 as follows:
(1) In the recital to SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, lines 4
and 5), strike "Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (g)" and substitute
"Subsections (a-1), (a-2), (g), and (h)".
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, at the end of amended Section
51.803, Education Code (page 4, between lines 18 and 19), insert the
following:
(h) A general academic teaching institution may not offer
admission under Subsection (a-1) for an academic year if, on the
date of the institution's general deadline for applications for
admission of first-time undergraduate students for that academic
year:
(1) a finally adjudicated court order applicable to
the institution prohibits the institution from considering an
applicant's race or ethnicity as a factor in the institution's
decisions relating to first-time undergraduate admissions; or
(2) the institution's governing board by rule, policy,
or other manner has provided that an applicant's race or ethnicity
may not be considered as a factor in the institution's decisions
relating to first-time undergraduate admissions.