| 1 | 1 | | By: Seliger S.B. No. 1530 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (Branch) |
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| 3 | 3 | | |
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| 4 | 4 | | |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the admission of undergraduate students to public |
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| 8 | 8 | | institutions of higher education. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subsections (a-3) and (k), Section 51.803, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Education Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (a-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (a-1), The University of |
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| 13 | 13 | | Texas at Austin may not offer admission under that subsection for an |
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| 14 | 14 | | academic year after the 2017-2018 [2015-2016] academic year. |
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| 15 | 15 | | (k) A general academic teaching institution may not offer |
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| 16 | 16 | | admission under Subsection (a-1) for an academic year if, on the |
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| 17 | 17 | | date of the institution's general deadline for applications for |
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| 18 | 18 | | admission of first-time undergraduate students for that academic |
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| 19 | 19 | | year: |
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| 20 | 20 | | (1) federal law as then interpreted by applicable |
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| 21 | 21 | | federal judicial decisions does not prohibit [a final court order |
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| 22 | 22 | | applicable to the institution prohibits] the institution from |
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| 23 | 23 | | considering an applicant's race or ethnicity as a factor in the |
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| 24 | 24 | | institution's decisions relating to first-time undergraduate |
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| 25 | 25 | | admissions; and [or] |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2) the institution's governing board by rule, policy, |
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| 27 | 27 | | or other manner has provided that an applicant's race or ethnicity |
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| 28 | 28 | | may not be considered as a factor in the institution's decisions |
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| 29 | 29 | | relating to first-time undergraduate admissions for that[, except |
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| 30 | 30 | | that this subdivision does not apply to an institution that did not |
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| 31 | 31 | | consider, on or before June 1, 2009, an applicant's race or |
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| 32 | 32 | | ethnicity as a factor in its admissions of first-time resident |
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| 33 | 33 | | undergraduate students for the 2009-2010] academic year. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 35 | 35 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 36 | 36 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 37 | 37 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 38 | 38 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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