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Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 (floor substitute) by
Representative Branch to CSSB 175 in SECTION 1 of the bill, amending
Section 51.803, Education Code, as follows:
(1) In the recital (page 1, lines 4 and 5), strike
"Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (g)" and substitute "Subsections
(a-1), (a-2), (a-3), and (g)".
(2) Immediately following added Section 51.803(a-2),
Education Code (page 4, between lines 2 and 3), insert the
following:
(a-3) This subsection applies only to a general academic
teaching institution that does not have the option of electing to
offer admission under Subsection (a-1). Notwithstanding Subsection
(a), beginning with admissions for the 2011-2012 academic year, an
institution to which this subsection applies shall admit an
applicant for admission to the institution as an undergraduate
student if the applicant graduated with a grade point average in
the top 25 percent of the student's high school graduating class in
one of the two school years preceding the academic year for which
the applicant is applying for admission and the applicant satisfies
the requirements of Subsections (a)(1), (2), and (3), except that
the institution is not required to offer admission to applicants
qualified for admission under this subsection in excess of the
number required to fill 60 percent of the institution's enrollment
capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate students
for that academic year. The institution shall offer admission to
applicants under this subsection by percentile rank according to
high school graduating class standing based on grade point average,
beginning with the top percentile rank, until the applicants
qualified under this subsection have been offered admission in the
number estimated in good faith by the institution as sufficient to
fill 50 percent of the institution's enrollment capacity designated
for first-time resident undergraduate students for that academic
year, except that the institution must offer admission to all
applicants with the same percentile rank. In addition to those
admissions, until applicants qualified under this subsection have
been offered admission in the number estimated in good faith by the
institution as sufficient to fill 60 percent of the designated
enrollment capacity described by this subsection, the institution
shall offer to applicants qualified for admission under this
subsection in the same manner as other applicants for admission as
first-time undergraduate students in accordance with Section
51.805, except that the institution may not consider applicants
other than those applicants qualified under this subsection.
After the applicants qualified for admission under this subsection
have been offered admission under this subsection in the number
estimated in good faith as sufficient to fill 60 percent of the
designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection, the
institution shall consider any remaining applicants qualified for
admission under this subsection in the same manner as other
applicants for admission as first-time undergraduate students in
accordance with Section 51.805.