Bill Text: TX HB3993 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 3993 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the automatic admission of students with a nontraditional secondary education to certain public institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3993 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3993-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 3993




	AN ACT
	relating to the automatic admission of students with a
	nontraditional secondary education to certain public institutions
	of higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 51.803, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (m) to read as
	follows:
	(a) Subject to Subsection (a-1), each general academic
	teaching institution shall admit an applicant for admission to the
	institution as an undergraduate student if the applicant graduated
	with a grade point average in the top 10 percent of the student's
	high school graduating class in one of the two school years
	preceding the academic year for which the applicant is applying for
	admission and:
	(1) the applicant:
	(A) graduated from a public or private high
	school in this state accredited by a generally recognized
	accrediting organization or from a high school operated by the
	United States Department of Defense; or
	(B) completed a nontraditional secondary
	education as defined by Section 51.9241;
	(2) the applicant:
	(A) successfully completed:
	(i) at a public high school, the curriculum
	requirements established under Section 28.025 for the
	distinguished level of achievement under the foundation high school
	program; or
	(ii) at a high school to which Section
	28.025 does not apply, a curriculum that is equivalent in content
	and rigor to the distinguished level of achievement under the
	foundation high school program; or
	(B) satisfied ACT's College Readiness Benchmarks
	on the ACT assessment applicable to the applicant or earned on the
	SAT assessment a score of at least 1,500 out of 2,400 or the
	equivalent; and
	(3) if the applicant graduated from a high school
	operated by the United States Department of Defense, the applicant
	is a Texas resident under Section 54.052 or is entitled to pay
	tuition fees at the rate provided for Texas residents under Section
	54.241(d) for the term or semester to which admitted.
	(m) In determining the eligibility for admission under this
	section of an applicant with a nontraditional secondary education,
	as defined by Section 51.9241, that does not include a high school
	graduating class ranking, a general academic teaching institution
	shall calculate the applicant's class rank in the manner provided
	by Section 51.9241(d).
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply
	beginning with admissions to a public institution of higher
	education for the 2024 fall semester. Admissions to a public
	institution of higher education for a term or semester before the
	2024 fall semester 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 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, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3993 was passed by the House on April
	26, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 106, Nays 40, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3993 was passed by the Senate on May
	16, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 11.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor