Amend HB 1843 by striking SECTIONS 1 and 2 of the bill, substituting the following appropriately numbered SECTION, and renumbering the other SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION 1.  Subsections (a-3) and (k), Section 51.803, Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a-3)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a-1), The University of Texas at Austin may not offer admission under that subsection for an academic year after the 2017-2018 [2015-2016] academic year.

(k)  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)  federal law as then interpreted by applicable federal judicial decisions does not prohibit [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; and [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 for that[, 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.