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.