By: Seliger S.B. No. 1530
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2013; March 19, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
April 4, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 0; April 4, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the admission of undergraduate students to public
institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (a-3) and (k), Section 51.803,
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 if, on the
date of the institution's general deadline for applications for
admission of first-time undergraduate students for that academic
year:
(1) federal law as then interpreted by applicable
federal judicial decisions does not prohibit [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; and [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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