Relating to the consideration of college entrance examinations for admission to certain public institutions of higher education and a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding those examinations.

Contracts

• Scholarship Agreements: Review institutional scholarship contracts that grant awards based on "automatic admission" criteria. If these contracts reference specific, now-repealed sections of the Education Code, they must be amended to reference the new THECB administrative rules to avoid ambiguity.
• Vendor Data Integrations: If THECB designates a new entrance exam (e.g., the CLT) alongside SAT/ACT, IT and Legal must establish new data-sharing and privacy agreements with the new vendor immediately to ensure seamless score imports into CRM systems.

Hiring/Training

• Admissions Staff: Recruiters must be retrained to stop quoting the old statutory score guarantees to the high school Class of 2028 and beyond.
• IT Configuration: Student Information Systems (SIS) and CRMs (e.g., Slate, Salesforce) must be reconfigured. Hardcoded logic validating admission based on the old statutory scores must be replaced with a variable rules engine that can be updated as THECB adjusts standards.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

• Publications: Course Catalogs and Student Handbooks must be updated to cite THECB rules rather than the Texas Education Code for testing benchmarks.
• Audit Trails: Maintain distinct records for the 2027–2028 academic year. You will likely process deferrals under the old statutory standard while processing new applicants under the new THECB rules simultaneously.

Fees & Costs

• Internal Costs: Budget for administrative hours to rewrite policy and IT hours to reconfigure admissions algorithms.
• No State Fee: There are no new state-mandated fees associated with this legislation.