Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1		-	~~85R24630~~ SRS-F
	1	+	85R3544 SRS-F
2	2		By: Turner H.B. No. 3585
3		-	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3585:
4		-	By: Lozano C.S.H.B. No. 3585
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7	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	6		AN ACT
9	7		relating to common admission application forms for institutions of
10	8		higher education.
11	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	10		SECTION 1. Section 51.761, Education Code, is amended to
13	11		read as follows:
14	12		Sec. 51.761. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter, "board,"
15	13		"general academic teaching institution," "governing board,"
16		-	"institution of higher education," "~~medical and dental unit~~,"
17		-	~~"public state college," "public~~ technical institute," "private or
18		-	~~independent institution of~~ higher education," and "university
19		-	~~system" have the meanings~~ assigned by Section 61.003.
	14	+	"institution of higher education," "public state college," "public
	15	+	technical institute," "private or independent institution of
	16	+	higher education," and "university system" have the meanings
	17	+	assigned by Section 61.003.
20	18		SECTION 2. Sections 51.762(a), (f), and (h), Education
21	19		Code, are amended to read as follows:
22	20		(a) The board, with the assistance of high school counselors
23	21		and an advisory committee composed of representatives of general
24	22		academic teaching institutions, junior college districts, public
25	23		state colleges, [and] public technical institutes, and private or
26	24		independent institutions of higher education [and with the
27	25		consultation of all institutions of higher education that admit
28	26		freshman-level students]:
29	27		(1) shall adopt by rule:
30	28		(A) a common admission application form for use
31	29		by a person seeking admission [as a freshman student] to a general
32	30		academic teaching institution;
33	31		(B) an electronic common admission application
34	32		form for use by a person seeking admission [as a freshman student]
35	33		to an institution of higher education [that admits freshman-level
36		-	students], other than a general academic teaching institution or a
37		-	medical and dental unit; and
	34	+	students], other than a general academic teaching institution; and
38	35		(C) if the board determines that adoption of the
39	36		form would be cost-effective for nursing schools, an electronic
40	37		common admission application form for use by a person seeking
41	38		admission as a student to an undergraduate nursing education
42	39		program at an institution of higher education; and
43	40		(2) may adopt by rule a printed format common
44	41		admission application form for use by a person seeking admission as
45	42		a freshman student to an institution of higher education that
46	43		admits freshman-level students, other than a general academic
47	44		teaching institution.
48	45		(f) The board shall ensure that copies of the [freshman]
49	46		common admission application forms appropriate for use by a person
50	47		seeking admission to an institution of higher education as a
51	48		freshman student and information for the use of the forms are
52	49		available in electronic format [for distribution] to the
53	50		appropriate personnel at each public high school in this state.
54	51		(h) An applicant may file, and each institution of higher
55	52		education shall accept, an application for admission [as an
56	53		entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student] that uses the
57	54		appropriate form adopted under this section. The form used to
58	55		apply to a general academic teaching institution may be filed in
59	56		either electronic or printed format. An institution of higher
60	57		education is not prohibited from requiring an applicant to submit
61	58		additional information within a reasonable time after the
62	59		institution has received an application using a form adopted under
63	60		this section.
64	61		SECTION 3. Section 51.763(a), Education Code, is amended to
65	62		read as follows:
66	63		(a) The governing board of a university system shall adopt a
67	64		common admission application form consistent with this subchapter
68	65		to be used by any person seeking [freshman or undergraduate
69	66		transfer] admission to one or more of the general academic teaching
70	67		institutions within the university system.
71	68		SECTION 4. Section 51.762(b), Education Code, is repealed.
72	69		SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act apply
73	70		beginning with applications for admission to institutions of higher
74	71		education for the 2018-2019 academic year.
75	72		SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
76	73		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
77	74		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
78	75		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
79	76		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.