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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)  Strike added Section 51.803(a-1), Education Code (page 
2, line 5, through page 3, line 17), and substitute the following:
	(a-1)  Beginning with admissions for the 2011-2012 academic 
year, The University of Texas at Austin is not required to offer 
admission to applicants who qualify for automatic admission under 
Subsection (a) in excess of the number required to fill 75 percent 
of the university's enrollment capacity designated for first-time 
resident undergraduate students in an academic year.  If the number 
of applicants who qualify for automatic admission to The University 
of Texas at Austin under Subsection (a) for an academic year exceeds 
75 percent of the university's enrollment capacity designated for 
first-time resident undergraduate students for that academic year, 
the university may elect to offer admission to those applicants as 
provided by this subsection and not as otherwise required by 
Subsection (a).  If the university elects to offer admission under 
this subsection, the university shall offer admission to those 
applicants 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 Subsection 
(a) have been offered admission in the number estimated in good 
faith by the university as sufficient to fill 75 percent of the 
university's enrollment capacity designated for first-time 
resident undergraduate students, except that the university must 
offer admission to all applicants with the same percentile rank.  
After the applicants qualified for automatic admission under 
Subsection (a) have been offered admission under this subsection in 
the number estimated in good faith as sufficient to fill 75 percent 
of the designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection, 
the university shall fill the remaining designated capacity 
described by this subsection as provided by Subsection (a-2).
	(2)  Immediately following added Section 51.803(a-1), 
Education Code (page 3, between lines 17 and 18), insert the 
following:
	(a-2)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a-1), an institution that 
offers admission under Subsection (a-1) shall apportion one-half of 
the remaining enrollment capacity described by Subsection (a-1) 
equally as nearly as possible among the districts used to elect the 
members of the house of representatives.  From the applicants for 
first-time resident undergraduate admission to the institution not 
offered admission under Subsection (a-1) who are otherwise eligible 
to be admitted to the institution, the institution shall identify 
those applicants who reside in each representative district and who 
graduated 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.  
The institution shall offer admission to those applicants who 
reside in each representative district in the number required to 
fill the apportioned enrollment capacity for that district.  If the 
number of those applicants residing in a representative district 
exceeds the number estimated in good faith to fill the apportioned 
enrollment capacity for that district, the institution shall offer 
admission as the institution determines appropriate in accordance 
with Section 51.805 to those applicants in a number estimated in 
good faith as sufficient to fill the apportioned enrollment 
capacity.  If the number of those applicants residing in a 
representative district is less than the number estimated in good 
faith to fill the apportioned enrollment capacity for that 
district, the institution may fill that remaining enrollment 
capacity, and any other remaining portion of enrollment capacity 
not apportioned to representative districts under this subsection, 
in accordance with Section 51.805 by offering admission to any 
remaining qualified applicants without regard the representative 
district in which the applicants reside, including applicants who 
did not graduate in the top 25 percent of the student's high school 
graduating class.
	(3)  In added Section 51.803(a-2), Education Code (page 3, 
line 22), strike "60" and substitute "75".
	(4)  Redesignate added Section 51.803(a-2) (page 3, line 18) 
as Section 51.803(a-3) and correct any cross-references to the 
subsections of amended Section 51.803 accordingly.