TITLE: Relating to requirements for the coordinated admission program at The University of Texas at Austin.

SUMMARY: Relating to requirements for the coordinated admission program at The University of Texas at Austin.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to requirements for the coordinated admission program at The University of Texas at Austin. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 67, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 67.28 to read as follows: Sec. 67.28. COORDINATED ADMISSION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. (a) In this section, "coordinated admission program" means an admission program at the university under which a participating student who successfully completes a designated number of semester credit hours of approved transferable course work at another component institution of The University of Texas System during the student's freshman year is entitled to guaranteed admission to the university for the student's sophomore year without applying for regular transfer admission. (b) The board shall provide that advanced placement courses, international baccalaureate courses, and courses completed through concurrent enrollment in high school and at an institution of higher education are accepted as satisfying: (1) any applicable subject matter component of the transferable course work required under the coordinated admission program; and (2) any applicable lower-division course credit prerequisite for enrollment in an upper-division course offered by the transferring institution. (c) The board is not required to apply credit for a course described by Subsection (b) toward the total number of semester credit hours of approved transferable course work required for a student's successful completion of the freshman year course requirements of the coordinated admission program. SECTION 2. Section 67.28, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies beginning with admissions to the coordinated admission program at The University of Texas at Austin for the fall 2011 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.