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Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 (floor substitute) by
Representative Branch to CSSB 175 by adding the following
appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. The purpose of the reforms provided for in
this Act is to continue and facilitate progress in general academic
teaching institutions in this state with regard to the racial,
ethnic, demographic, geographic, and rural/urban diversity of the
student bodies of those institutions in undergraduate, graduate,
and professional education, including the participation goals
identified in the Closing the Gaps initiative, the state's master
plan for higher education. Nothing in this Act prevents a general
academic teaching institution in this state from engaging in
appropriate individualized holistic review, consistent with that
purpose, for the admission of students who are not entitled to
automatic admission under Section 51.803, Education Code, as
amended by this Act.