By:  Wilson                                           H.B. No. 1129
       73R78 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the distribution of condoms at public and private
    1-3  institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 51.929 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.929.  DISTRIBUTION OF CONDOMS.  (a)  Each institution
    1-8  shall distribute a condom to a student enrolled at the institution
    1-9  who requests the condom.
   1-10        (b)  An institution may charge a student for the cost of a
   1-11  condom.
   1-12        (c)  In this section, "institution" means an institution of
   1-13  higher education, as defined by Section 61.003 of this code, and a
   1-14  public or private college or university in this state.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Not later than September 1, 1993, each public and
   1-16  private institution of higher education shall begin distributing
   1-17  condoms as required by Section 51.929, Education Code, as added by
   1-18  this Act, to enrolled students who request condoms.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.