1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1321
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 30, 1993; March 30, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 22, 1993,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-5 April 22, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the admission and enrollment of certain students in
1-22 public institutions of higher education.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
1-25 amended by adding Section 51.929 to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 51.929. RIGHT TO AN ACADEMIC FRESH START. (a) This
1-27 section applies to any public institution of higher education as
1-28 defined in Section 61.003 of this code.
1-29 (b) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, a resident of this
1-30 state is entitled to apply for admission to and enroll as an
1-31 undergraduate student in any public institution of higher education
1-32 under this section.
1-33 (c) If an applicant elects to seek admission under this
1-34 section, a public institution of higher education, in considering
1-35 the applicant for admission, shall not consider academic course
1-36 credits or grades earned by the applicant 10 or more years prior to
1-37 the starting date of the semester in which the applicant seeks to
1-38 enroll. An applicant who makes the election to apply under this
1-39 section and is admitted as a student may not receive any course
1-40 credit for courses undertaken prior to enrollment under this
1-41 section.
1-42 (d) If a student who enrolls under this section completes a
1-43 prescribed course of study, earns a baccalaureate degree and
1-44 applies for admission to a postgraduate or professional program
1-45 offered by a public institution of higher education, the
1-46 institution, in considering the applicant for admission into the
1-47 postgraduate or professional program, shall consider only the grade
1-48 point average of the applicant established by the course work
1-49 completed after enrollment under this section, along with any other
1-50 criteria the institution uses in evaluating applicants for
1-51 admission into the postgraduate or professional program.
1-52 SECTION 2. Section 51.929, Education Code, as added by this
1-53 Act, applies beginning with the fall semester in 1993.
1-54 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-55 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-60 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-61 * * * * *
1-62 Austin,
1-63 Texas
1-64 April 22, 1993
1-65 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-66 President of the Senate
1-67 Sir:
1-68 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B.
2-1 No. 1321, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-2 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-3 that it do pass and be printed.
2-4 Ratliff,
2-5 Chairman
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2-7 WITNESSES
2-8 FOR AGAINST ON
2-9 ___________________________________________________________________
2-10 Name: Dr. Louise Heenan x
2-11 Representing: Self
2-12 City: Austin
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2-14 Name: Holly Bacarisse x
2-15 Representing: Self
2-16 City: Austin
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