Relating to the automatic admission of students to general academic teaching institutions.

HB 3148 modifies Texas law to reduce the automatic admission cap for first-time resident undergraduate students at public universities from 75% to 50% of designated enrollment capacity. It requires institutions to admit qualifying students (typically top 10% of high school class) by percentile rank, starting from the highest rank, until reaching the 50% threshold. If the number of automatic-qualifying applicants exceeds this cap, universities may admit them up to 50% and then treat remaining qualifiers like other applicants. The bill also mandates universities to notify school districts by September 15 each year about expected admission cutoffs for qualifying students, directly affecting high school seniors seeking automatic admission to Texas public universities.