73R9176 SOS-D
          By Rodriguez, et al.                                  H.B. No. 2057
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2057:
          By Rangel                                         C.S.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.