Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB2422 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R9280 KSD-D
2	2	By: Morrison H.B. No. 2422
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the automatic admission of undergraduate students to
8	8	general academic teaching institutions.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 51.803, Education Code, is amended by
11	11	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
12	12	follows:
13	13	(a) Subject to Subsection (b-1), each [Each] general
14	14	academic teaching institution shall admit an applicant for
15	15	admission to the institution as an undergraduate student if the
16	16	applicant graduated with a grade point average in the top 10 percent
17	17	of the student's high school graduating class in one of the two
18	18	school years preceding the academic year for which the applicant is
19	19	applying for admission and:
20	20	(1) the applicant graduated from a public or private
21	21	high school in this state accredited by a generally recognized
22	22	accrediting organization or from a high school operated by the
23	23	United States Department of Defense;
24	24	(2) the applicant:
25	25	(A) successfully completed:
26	26	(i) at a public high school, the curriculum
27	27	requirements established under Section 28.025 for the recommended
28	28	or advanced high school program; or
29	29	(ii) at a high school to which Section
30	30	28.025 does not apply, a curriculum that is equivalent in content
31	31	and rigor to the recommended or advanced high school program; or
32	32	(B) satisfied ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks
33	33	on the ACT assessment applicable to the applicant or earned on the
34	34	SAT assessment a score of at least 1,500 out of 2,400 or the
35	35	equivalent; and
36	36	(3) if the applicant graduated from a high school
37	37	operated by the United States Department of Defense, the applicant
38	38	is a Texas resident under Section 54.052 or is entitled to pay
39	39	tuition fees at the rate provided for Texas residents under Section
40	40	54.058(d) for the term or semester to which admitted.
41	41	(b-1) A general academic teaching institution is not
42	42	required to admit under Subsection (a) more than 50 percent of the
43	43	institution's first-time resident undergraduate students in an
44	44	academic year. If the number of applicants who qualify for
45	45	automatic admission to a general academic teaching institution
46	46	under Subsection (a) exceeds that percentage of the institution's
47	47	enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident
48	48	undergraduate students, the institution shall:
49	49	(1) offer admission to those applicants by percentile
50	50	rank according to graduating class standing based on grade point
51	51	average, beginning with the top percentile rank, until a sufficient
52	52	number of applicants have accepted admission offers to fill that
53	53	percentage of the institution's enrollment capacity designated for
54	54	first-time resident undergraduate students, except that the
55	55	institution must offer admission to all applicants with the same
56	56	percentile rank; and
57	57	(2) after offering admission to applicants under
58	58	Subdivision (1), consider any remaining applicants qualified for
59	59	automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same manner as
60	60	other applicants for admission as first-time freshmen students in
61	61	accordance with Section 51.805.
62	62	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
63	63	beginning with admissions to general academic teaching
64	64	institutions for the 2010-2011 academic year. Admissions to a
65	65	general academic teaching institution before that academic year are
66	66	covered by the law in effect before the effective date of this Act,
67	67	and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
68	68	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.