73R9176 SOS-D By Rodriguez, et al. H.B. No. 2057 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the establishment of a campus of a public 1-3 institution of higher education in the border area of this state. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 65, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 65.47 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 65.47. BEXAR COUNTY CAMPUS. (a) The board may 1-8 establish a four-year coeducational campus in south or downtown San 1-9 Antonio as an additional campus of a component institution under 1-10 its governance. 1-11 (b) A department, school, course, or degree program may not 1-12 be instituted at a campus established under this section without 1-13 the prior approval of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating 1-14 Board. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.