By: Branch (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1843
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2013;
May 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
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. Sections 51.803(a-3) and (k), 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 after the
2017-2018 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) 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; 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.
SECTION 2. 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.
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