By:  Smith, Ashley                                    H.B. No. 1067
       73R4716 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain exemptions from the application of the Texas
    1-3  Proprietary School Act.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 32.12(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The following schools or educational institutions are
    1-8  specifically exempt from the provisions of this chapter and are not
    1-9  within the definition of "proprietary school":
   1-10              (1)  a school or educational institution supported by
   1-11  taxation from either a local or State source;
   1-12              (2)  nonprofit schools owned, controlled, operated, and
   1-13  conducted by bona fide religious, denominational, eleemosynary, or
   1-14  similar public institutions exempt from property taxation under the
   1-15  laws of this State, but such schools may choose to apply for a
   1-16  certificate of approval hereunder, and upon approval and issuance,
   1-17  shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter as determined by
   1-18  the administrator;
   1-19              (3)  a school or training program which offers
   1-20  instruction of purely avocational or recreational subjects as
   1-21  determined by the administrator;
   1-22              (4)  a course or courses of instruction or study
   1-23  sponsored by an employer for the training and preparation of its
   1-24  own employees, and for which no tuition fee is charged to the
    2-1  student;
    2-2              (5)  a course or courses of study or instruction
    2-3  sponsored by a recognized trade, business, or professional
    2-4  organization for the instruction of the members of the organization
    2-5  with a closed membership;
    2-6              (6)  private colleges or universities which award a
    2-7  recognized baccalaureate, or higher degree, and which maintain and
    2-8  operate educational programs for which a majority of the credits
    2-9  given are transferable to a college, junior college, or university
   2-10  supported entirely or partly by taxation from either a local or
   2-11  State source;
   2-12              (7)  a school which is otherwise regulated and approved
   2-13  under and pursuant to any other law of the State, except as
   2-14  provided by Subsection (c) of this section;
   2-15              (8)  aviation schools or instructors approved by and
   2-16  under the supervision of the Federal Aviation Administration;
   2-17              (9)  a school which offers intensive review courses
   2-18  designed to prepare students for certified public accountancy
   2-19  tests, public accountancy tests, law school aptitude tests, bar
   2-20  examinations, or medical college admissions tests; and
   2-21              (10)  a nonprofit dispute resolution organization, as
   2-22  defined by Section 154.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, that
   2-23  conducts a training program in alternative dispute resolution.
   2-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-3  passage, and it is so enacted.