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Amend SB 175 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                         
	(1)  In the recital to SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, line 
12), strike "(a-1) and (a-2)" and substitute "(a-1), (a-2), and 
(g)".
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, immediately following added 
Section 51.803(a-2), Education Code (page 2, between lines 16 and 
17), insert the following:
	(g)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule 
shall develop and implement a program to increase and enhance the 
efforts of general academic teaching institutions in conducting 
outreach to academically high-performing high school seniors in 
this state who are likely to be eligible for automatic admission 
under Subsection (a) to provide to those students information and 
counseling regarding the operation of this section and other 
opportunities, including financial assistance, available to those 
students for success at public institutions of higher education in 
this state.  Under the program, the coordinating board, after 
gathering information and recommendations from available sources 
and examining current outreach practices by institutions in this 
state and in other states, shall prescribe best practices 
guidelines and standards to be used by general academic teaching 
institutions in conducting the student outreach described by this 
subsection.