Bill Text: TX SB1888 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of students to general academic teaching institutions and on the admission of nonresident students to The University of Texas at Austin.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Higher Education [SB1888 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1888-Introduced.html
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By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 1888 |
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relating to limitations on the automatic admission of students to | ||
general academic teaching institutions and on the admission of | ||
nonresident students to The University of Texas at Austin. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.803, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (a-6) and adding Subsection | ||
(j-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) Beginning with admissions for the 2019-2020 | ||
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admission to applicants who qualify for automatic admission under | ||
Subsection (a) in excess of the number required to fill 50 [ |
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designated for first-time resident undergraduate students in an | ||
academic year. If the number of applicants who qualify for | ||
automatic admission to the institution [ |
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percent of the institution's [ |
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designated for first-time resident undergraduate students for that | ||
academic year, the institution [ |
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admission to those applicants as provided by this subsection and | ||
not as otherwise required by Subsection (a). If the institution | ||
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by percentile rank according to high school graduating class | ||
standing based on grade point average, beginning with the top | ||
percentile rank, until the applicants qualified under Subsection | ||
(a) have been offered admission in the number estimated in good | ||
faith by the institution [ |
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percent of the institution's [ |
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designated for first-time resident undergraduate students, except | ||
that the institution [ |
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applicants with the same percentile rank. After the applicants | ||
qualified for automatic admission under Subsection (a) have been | ||
offered admission under this subsection in the number estimated in | ||
good faith as sufficient to fill at least 50 [ |
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designated enrollment capacity described by this subsection, the | ||
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qualified for automatic admission under Subsection (a) in the same | ||
manner as other applicants for admission as first-time | ||
undergraduate students in accordance with Section 51.805. | ||
(a-2) If the number of applicants who apply to a general | ||
academic teaching institution during the current academic year for | ||
admission in the next academic year and who qualify for automatic | ||
admission to a general academic teaching institution under | ||
Subsection (a) exceeds 50 [ |
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enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident | ||
undergraduate students for that next academic year and the | ||
institution plans to offer admission under Subsection (a-1) during | ||
the next school year, the institution shall, in the manner | ||
prescribed by the Texas Education Agency and not later than | ||
September 15, provide to each school district, for dissemination of | ||
the information to high school junior-level students and their | ||
parents, notice of which percentile ranks of high school | ||
senior-level students who qualify for automatic admission under | ||
Subsection (a) are anticipated by the institution to be offered | ||
admission under Subsection (a-1) during the next school year. | ||
(a-6) Not later than December 31 of each academic year in | ||
which a general academic teaching institution [ |
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governor, the lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of | ||
representatives regarding the institution's [ |
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progress in each of the following matters: | ||
(1) increasing geographic diversity of the entering | ||
freshman class; | ||
(2) counseling and outreach efforts aimed at students | ||
qualified for automatic admission under this section; | ||
(3) recruiting Texas residents who graduate from other | ||
institutions of higher education to the institution's | ||
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(4) recruiting students who are members of | ||
underrepresented demographic segments of the state's population; | ||
and | ||
(5) assessing and improving the institution's | ||
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(j-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (j), if The University of | ||
Texas at Austin elects to offer admission under Subsection (a-1) | ||
for an academic year, the university may not offer admission to | ||
first-time undergraduate students who are not residents of this | ||
state for that academic year in excess of the number required to | ||
fill 15 percent of the university's enrollment capacity designated | ||
for first-time undergraduate students for that academic year. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
beginning with admissions to a general academic teaching | ||
institution for the 2019-2020 academic year. Admissions to a | ||
general academic teaching institution for an academic period before | ||
that academic year are governed by the law in effect immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2018. |