Bill Text: TX HB874 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility requirements for admission of undergraduate students to a general academic teaching institution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-19 - Referred to Higher Education [HB874 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB874-Introduced.html

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83R2069 AED-D
By: Lavender H.B. No. 874

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility requirements for admission of
undergraduate students to a general academic teaching institution.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.805(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A graduating student who does not qualify for admission
under Section 51.803 or 51.804 may apply to any general academic
teaching institution if the student [satisfies the requirements
of]:
(1) satisfies the requirements of [Section
51.803(a)(2)(A) or 51.803(b), as applicable to the student, or]
Section 51.803(a)(2)(B); or [and]
(2) successfully completes a public or private high
school curriculum that the institution considers satisfactory in
content and rigor and provides to the institution a high school
transcript or diploma reflecting that the student has completed or
is on schedule to complete that curriculum [Sections 51.803(c)(2)
and 51.803(d)].
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
51.805, Education Code, applies beginning with the 2013 fall
semester.
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, 2013.