Bill Text: TX SB1219 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board conduct an annual comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the top 10 percent automatic admissions law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Referred to Higher Education [SB1219 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1219-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | S.B. No. 1219 | |
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| relating to a requirement that the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board conduct an annual comprehensive evaluation of | ||
| the impact of the top 10 percent automatic admissions law. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0667 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0667. ANNUAL EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC ADMISSIONS. | ||
| (a) Annually, the board shall conduct a comprehensive, statewide | ||
| quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the impact of the | ||
| automatic admission of students at general academic teaching | ||
| institutions under Section 51.803, with particular focus on the | ||
| impact of automatic admissions on admissions to The University of | ||
| Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University. | ||
| (b) The evaluation required under this section must include | ||
| an analysis of the impact of automatic admissions under Section | ||
| 51.803 on the racial, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity of | ||
| first-time resident undergraduate students at general academic | ||
| teaching institutions. | ||
| (c) On request, a general academic teaching institution | ||
| shall provide the board with any information the board considers | ||
| necessary for conducting its evaluation under this section. | ||
| (d) The evaluation required by this section is in addition | ||
| to the annual report required by Section 51.803(l). | ||
| (e) Not later than September 1 of each year, the board shall | ||
| provide to each standing committee of the legislature with primary | ||
| jurisdiction over higher education and to the primary author and | ||
| sponsor of the legislation enacting this section, if still members | ||
| of the legislature, a detailed written report regarding the board's | ||
| most recent evaluation conducted under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| shall provide the initial report required under Section 61.0667, | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act, not later than September 1, | ||
| 2018. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
