AN ACT

 1-1     relating to restrictions on the admission of certain persons

 1-2     promised or granted an athletic scholarship or similar financial

 1-3     assistance at a general academic teaching institution.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 51.9245 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 51.9245.  ADMISSION OF PERSON RECEIVING ATHLETIC

 1-8     SCHOLARSHIP.  (a)  In this section, "general academic teaching

 1-9     institution" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.

1-10           (b)  A general academic teaching institution may not admit an

1-11     applicant who has been promised or granted an athletic scholarship,

1-12     grant, or similar financial assistance conditioned on the student's

1-13     participation in a sport, game, or other competition involving

1-14     substantial physical ability or physical skill for or on a team

1-15     organized or sponsored by the general academic teaching institution

1-16     that is funded by state funds unless:

1-17                 (1)  if the general academic teaching institution

1-18     requires a minimum high school grade point average as an admissions

1-19     criterion for any entering freshman, that minimum applies to all

1-20     freshmen being admitted; or

1-21                 (2)  for an applicant other than an entering freshman,

1-22     the applicant's cumulative college-level grade point average is

1-23     equal to or greater than the minimum cumulative college-level grade

                                                               S.B. No. 1419

 2-1     point average required for an undergraduate student to remain

 2-2     enrolled at the institution in the preceding academic year.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

 2-4     applies only to the admission of a student on or after that date.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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            President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1419 passed the Senate on

         April 10, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 23, Nays 7;

         May 29, 1997, Senate refused to concur in House amendment and

         requested appointment of Conference Committee; May 30, 1997, House

         granted request of the Senate; May 31, 1997, Senate adopted

         Conference Committee Report by the following vote:  Yeas 21,

         Nays 7.

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                                                Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1419 passed the House, with

         amendment, on May 24, 1997, by a non-record vote; May 30, 1997,

         House granted request of the Senate for appointment of Conference

         Committee; June 1, 1997, House adopted Conference Committee Report

         by a non-record vote.

                                            _______________________________

                                                Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor