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  By: Branch H.B. No. 1843
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate
  students to general academic teaching institutions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 51.803(a-3), Education Code, is 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.
         SECTION 2.  Section 51.803(k), Education Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.