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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) If a general academic teaching institution denies
admission to an applicant for an academic year, in any letter or
other communication the institution provides to the applicant
notifying the applicant of that denial, the institution may not
reference the provisions of this section, including using a
description of a provision of this section such as the top 10
percent automatic admissions law, as a reason the institution is
unable to offer admission to the applicant unless the number of
applicants for admission to the institution for that academic year
who qualify for automatic admission under Subsection (a) is
sufficient to fill 100 percent of the institution's enrollment
capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate
students.