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               AN ACT
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            relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate  | 
         
         
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            students to general academic teaching institutions. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Section 51.803(k), Education Code, is repealed. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
         
         
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            a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
         
         
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            provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
         
         
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            Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
         
         
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            Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2538 passed the Senate on  | 
         
         
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            April 27, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate     | 
         
         
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                   I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2538 passed the House on  | 
         
         
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            May 17, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, one  | 
         
         
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            present not voting. | 
         
         
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            Chief Clerk of the House    | 
         
         
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            Approved: | 
         
         
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                      Governor |