By Black                                              H.B. No. 2562
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to Central Texas University.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3(a) of Acts 1989, 71st Legislature,
    1-5  Chapter 1255, as amended by Acts 1989, 71st Legislature, 1st Called
    1-6  Session, Chapter 37, Section 2, and as amended by Acts 1991, 72nd
    1-7  Legislature, Chapter 800, Section 2, is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, but only if<:>
    1-9        <(1)>  the American Educational Complex, a public junior
   1-10  college located in the city of Killeen, and American Technological
   1-11  University, a private upper-level institution of higher education
   1-12  located in the city of Killeen, are dissolved or abolished, as
   1-13  appropriate, before that date.<; and>
   1-14        <(2)  the establishment of Central Texas University is
   1-15  approved by a majority vote of the Texas Higher Education
   1-16  Coordinating Board before September 1, 1999.>
   1-17        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-18  and the crowded conditions of the calendars in both houses create
   1-19  an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.