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1	1	81R20827 KSD-D
2	2	By: Branch, Crabb, et al. H.B. No. 52
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 52:
4	4	By: Branch C.S.H.B. No. 52
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate
10	10	students to general academic teaching institutions.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 51.803, Education Code, is amended by
13	13	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	(a) Subject to Subsection (a-1), each [Each] general
16	16	academic teaching institution shall admit an applicant for
17	17	admission to the institution as an undergraduate student if the
18	18	applicant graduated with a grade point average in the top 10 percent
19	19	of the student's high school graduating class in one of the two
20	20	school years preceding the academic year for which the applicant is
21	21	applying for admission and:
22	22	(1) the applicant graduated from a public or private
23	23	high school in this state accredited by a generally recognized
24	24	accrediting organization or from a high school operated by the
25	25	United States Department of Defense;
26	26	(2) the applicant:
27	27	(A) successfully completed:
28	28	(i) at a public high school, the curriculum
29	29	requirements established under Section 28.025 for the recommended
30	30	or advanced high school program; or
31	31	(ii) at a high school to which Section
32	32	28.025 does not apply, a curriculum that is equivalent in content
33	33	and rigor to the recommended or advanced high school program; or
34	34	(B) satisfied ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks
35	35	on the ACT assessment applicable to the applicant or earned on the
36	36	SAT assessment a score of at least 1,500 out of 2,400 or the
37	37	equivalent; and
38	38	(3) if the applicant graduated from a high school
39	39	operated by the United States Department of Defense, the applicant
40	40	is a Texas resident under Section 54.052 or is entitled to pay
41	41	tuition fees at the rate provided for Texas residents under Section
42	42	54.058(d) for the term or semester to which admitted.
43	43	(a-1) Beginning with admissions for the 2010-2011 academic
44	44	year, a general academic teaching institution is not required to
45	45	admit under Subsection (a) more than 50 percent of the
46	46	institution's first-time resident undergraduate students in an
47	47	academic year. If the number of applicants who qualify for
48	48	automatic admission to a general academic teaching institution
49	49	under Subsection (a) exceeds 50 percent of the institution's
50	50	enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident
51	51	undergraduate students, the institution may elect to offer
52	52	admission to those applicants as provided by this subsection and
53	53	not as otherwise required by Subsection (a). If the institution
54	54	elects to offer admission under this subsection, the institution
55	55	shall offer admission to those applicants by percentile rank
56	56	according to high school graduating class standing based on grade
57	57	point average, beginning with the top percentile rank, until the
58	58	applicants qualified under Subsection (a) have been offered
59	59	admission in the number estimated in good faith by the institution
60	60	as sufficient to fill 40 percent of the institution's enrollment
61	61	capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate
62	62	students, except that the institution must offer admission to all
63	63	applicants with the same percentile rank. In addition to those
64	64	admissions, until applicants qualified under Subsection (a) have
65	65	been offered admission in the number estimated in good faith by the
66	66	institution as sufficient to fill 50 percent of the designated
67	67	enrollment capacity described by this subsection, the institution
68	68	shall offer to applicants qualified for automatic admission under
69	69	Subsection (a) admission in the same manner as other applicants for
70	70	admission as first-time undergraduate students in accordance with
71	71	Section 51.805, except that the institution may not consider
72	72	applicants other than those applicants qualified under Subsection
73	73	(a). After the applicants qualified for automatic admission under
74	74	Subsection (a) have been offered admission under this subsection in
75	75	the number estimated in good faith as sufficient to fill 50 percent
76	76	of the designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection,
77	77	the institution shall consider any remaining applicants qualified
78	78	for automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same manner as
79	79	other applicants for admission as first-time undergraduate
80	80	students in accordance with Section 51.805.
81	81	(a-2) In the manner prescribed by the Texas Education Agency
82	82	and not later than April 15, a general academic teaching
83	83	institution shall provide to each school district, for
84	84	dissemination of the information to high school junior-level
85	85	students and their parents, notice of which percentile ranks of
86	86	high school senior-level students are anticipated by the
87	87	institution to be automatically offered admission under Subsection
88	88	(a-1) during the next school year if:
89	89	(1) the number of applicants to the institution during
90	90	the current school year who qualify for automatic admission to the
91	91	institution under Subsection (a) exceeds 50 percent of the
92	92	institution's enrollment capacity designated for first-time
93	93	resident undergraduate students; and
94	94	(2) the institution plans to offer admission under
95	95	Subsection (a-1) during the next school year.
96	96	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
97	97	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
98	98	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
99	99	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
100	100	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.