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 Section 51.803(k), Education Code, is repealed.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.