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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 final 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, except that this 
subdivision does not apply to an institution that did not consider, 
on or before June 1, 2009, an applicant's race or ethnicity as a 
factor in its admissions of first-time resident undergraduate 
students for the 2009-2010 academic year.