Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1888 Compare Versions

Only one version of the bill is available at this time.

Old	New	Differences
1	1	85R2927 KJE-D
2	2	By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 1888
3	3
4	4
5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to limitations on the automatic admission of students to
8	8	general academic teaching institutions and on the admission of
9	9	nonresident students to The University of Texas at Austin.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 51.803, Education Code, is amended by
12	12	amending Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (a-6) and adding Subsection
13	13	(j-1) to read as follows:
14	14	(a-1) Beginning with admissions for the 2019-2020
15	15	[2011-2012] academic year, a general academic teaching institution
16	16	[The University of Texas at Austin] is not required to offer
17	17	admission to applicants who qualify for automatic admission under
18	18	Subsection (a) in excess of the number required to fill 50 [75]
19	19	percent of the institution's [university's] enrollment capacity
20	20	designated for first-time resident undergraduate students in an
21	21	academic year. If the number of applicants who qualify for
22	22	automatic admission to the institution [The University of Texas at
23	23	Austin] under Subsection (a) for an academic year exceeds 50 [75]
24	24	percent of the institution's [university's] enrollment capacity
25	25	designated for first-time resident undergraduate students for that
26	26	academic year, the institution [university] may elect to offer
27	27	admission to those applicants as provided by this subsection and
28	28	not as otherwise required by Subsection (a). If the institution
29	29	[university] elects to offer admission under this subsection, the
30	30	institution [university] shall offer admission to those applicants
31	31	by percentile rank according to high school graduating class
32	32	standing based on grade point average, beginning with the top
33	33	percentile rank, until the applicants qualified under Subsection
34	34	(a) have been offered admission in the number estimated in good
35	35	faith by the institution [university] as sufficient to fill 50 [75]
36	36	percent of the institution's [university's] enrollment capacity
37	37	designated for first-time resident undergraduate students, except
38	38	that the institution [university] must offer admission to all
39	39	applicants with the same percentile rank. After the applicants
40	40	qualified for automatic admission under Subsection (a) have been
41	41	offered admission under this subsection in the number estimated in
42	42	good faith as sufficient to fill at least 50 [75] percent of the
43	43	designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection, the
44	44	institution [university] shall consider any remaining applicants
45	45	qualified for automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same
46	46	manner as other applicants for admission as first-time
47	47	undergraduate students in accordance with Section 51.805.
48	48	(a-2) If the number of applicants who apply to a general
49	49	academic teaching institution during the current academic year for
50	50	admission in the next academic year and who qualify for automatic
51	51	admission to a general academic teaching institution under
52	52	Subsection (a) exceeds 50 [75] percent of the institution's
53	53	enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident
54	54	undergraduate students for that next academic year and the
55	55	institution plans to offer admission under Subsection (a-1) during
56	56	the next school year, the institution shall, in the manner
57	57	prescribed by the Texas Education Agency and not later than
58	58	September 15, provide to each school district, for dissemination of
59	59	the information to high school junior-level students and their
60	60	parents, notice of which percentile ranks of high school
61	61	senior-level students who qualify for automatic admission under
62	62	Subsection (a) are anticipated by the institution to be offered
63	63	admission under Subsection (a-1) during the next school year.
64	64	(a-6) Not later than December 31 of each academic year in
65	65	which a general academic teaching institution [The University of
66	66	Texas at Austin] offers admission under Subsection (a-1), the
67	67	institution [university] shall deliver a written report to the
68	68	governor, the lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of
69	69	representatives regarding the institution's [university's]
70	70	progress in each of the following matters:
71	71	(1) increasing geographic diversity of the entering
72	72	freshman class;
73	73	(2) counseling and outreach efforts aimed at students
74	74	qualified for automatic admission under this section;
75	75	(3) recruiting Texas residents who graduate from other
76	76	institutions of higher education to the institution's
77	77	[university's] graduate and professional degree programs;
78	78	(4) recruiting students who are members of
79	79	underrepresented demographic segments of the state's population;
80	80	and
81	81	(5) assessing and improving the institution's
82	82	[university's] regional recruitment centers.
83	83	(j-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (j), if The University of
84	84	Texas at Austin elects to offer admission under Subsection (a-1)
85	85	for an academic year, the university may not offer admission to
86	86	first-time undergraduate students who are not residents of this
87	87	state for that academic year in excess of the number required to
88	88	fill 15 percent of the university's enrollment capacity designated
89	89	for first-time undergraduate students for that academic year.
90	90	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply
91	91	beginning with admissions to a general academic teaching
92	92	institution for the 2019-2020 academic year. Admissions to a
93	93	general academic teaching institution for an academic period before
94	94	that academic year are governed by the law in effect immediately
95	95	before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is
96	96	continued in effect for that purpose.
97	97	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2018.