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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 by renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter U, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 51.8075 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.8075.  UNIFORM POLICY REGARDING UNDERREPRESENTED 
STUDENTS.  (a)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall 
adopt and as necessary amend a uniform affirmative action policy 
that reflects recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court 
on issues related to admissions in higher education.  The policy 
must include provisions designed to increase student diversity with 
respect to the different areas of this state.
	(b)  Not later than November 1 of each year, the coordinating 
board shall disseminate the policy described by Subsection (a) to 
each institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003.  
Not later than December 31 of that year, the governing board of each 
institution of higher education shall adopt, for use in its 
admissions for the following academic year, an affirmative action 
policy that is equivalent to or more stringent than the policy 
described by Subsection (a).