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.