By: Seliger	S.B. No. 1530

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the admission of undergraduate students to public
	institutions of higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subsections (a-3) and (k), Section 51.803,
	Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a-3)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a-1), The University of
	Texas at Austin may not offer admission under that subsection for an
	academic year after the 2017-2018 [2015-2016] academic year.
	(k)  A general academic teaching institution may not offer
	admission under Subsection (a-1) for an academic year if, on the
	date of the institution's general deadline for applications for
	admission of first-time undergraduate students for that academic
	year:
	(1)  federal law as then interpreted by applicable
	federal judicial decisions does not prohibit [a final court order
	applicable to the institution prohibits] the institution from
	considering an applicant's race or ethnicity as a factor in the
	institution's decisions relating to first-time undergraduate
	admissions; and [or]
	(2)  the institution's governing board by rule, policy,
	or other manner has provided that an applicant's race or ethnicity
	may not be considered as a factor in the institution's decisions
	relating to first-time undergraduate admissions for that[, except
	that this subdivision does not apply to an institution that did not
	consider, on or before June 1, 2009, an applicant's race or
	ethnicity as a factor in its admissions of first-time resident
	undergraduate students for the 2009-2010] academic year.
	SECTION 2.  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.