Tex. Educ. Code § 51.808 · Subchapter U. UNIFORM ADMISSION POLICY
APPLICATION OF ADMISSION CRITERIA TO OTHER PROGRAMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Each general academic teaching institution or medical and dental unit that offers admissions to undergraduate transfer students or admissions to a graduate, postgraduate, or professional program shall adopt a written admission policy applicable to those programs.
(b) Each general academic teaching institution shall adopt a written admission policy to promote the admission of undergraduate transfer students to the institution. The policy must provide for outreach and recruiting efforts directed at junior colleges and other lower-division institutions of higher education and may include incentives to encourage transfer applications and to retain and promote transfer students.
(c) A policy adopted under this section shall be published in the institution's or unit's catalog and made available to the public.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 155, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1369 (H.B. 3851), Sec. 4, eff. June 15, 2007.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.51.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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