By:  Wilson                                           H.B. No. 1254
       73R5650 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 not charge a student for a condom.
   1-11        (c)  In this section, "institution" means an institution of
   1-12  higher education, as defined by Section 61.003 of this code, and a
   1-13  public or private college or university in this state.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 1994, each public and
   1-15  private institution of higher education shall begin distributing
   1-16  condoms as required by Section 51.929, Education Code, as added by
   1-17  this Act, to enrolled students who request condoms.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.