1-1  By:  Carriker                                          S.B. No. 163
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1993; January 26, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  February 17, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
    1-6  February 17, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Ratliff            x                               
   1-10        Haley              x                               
   1-11        Barrientos                                     x   
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-14        Luna               x                               
   1-15        Montford                                       x   
   1-16        Shapiro                                        x   
   1-17        Sibley             x                               
   1-18        Turner             x                               
   1-19        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-20  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 163                    By:  Haley
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to the protection of buildings and grounds at private
   1-24  institutions of higher education.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Section 51.212, Education Code, is amended by
   1-27  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-28        (c)  In this section, "private institution of higher
   1-29  education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.302 of this code
   1-30  and includes those institutions accredited by the Commission on
   1-31  Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  Section 51.215, Education Code, is amended by
   1-33  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
   1-34  follows:
   1-35        (a)  An institution of higher education<, as defined in
   1-36  Section 61.003 of this code, or a private institution of higher
   1-37  education that is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the
   1-38  Southern Association of Colleges and Schools,> is entitled to
   1-39  obtain criminal history record information pertaining to an
   1-40  applicant for employment for a security-sensitive position.  The
   1-41  institution of higher education may deny employment to an applicant
   1-42  for a security-sensitive position who fails to provide a complete
   1-43  set of fingerprints upon request.
   1-44        (e)  In this section, "institution of higher education"
   1-45  means:
   1-46              (1)  an institution of higher education, as defined by
   1-47  Section 61.003 of this code; and
   1-48              (2)  a private institution of higher education, as
   1-49  defined by Section 61.302 of this code, and includes those
   1-50  institutions accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the
   1-51  Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
   1-52        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-53  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-54  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-55  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-56  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-57  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-58  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-60                                                         Austin,
   1-61  Texas
   1-62                                                         February 17,
   1-63  1993
   1-64  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-65  President of the Senate
   1-66  Sir:
   1-67  We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 163,
   1-68  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
    2-1  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
    2-2  pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
    2-3  pass and be printed.
    2-4                                                         Ratliff,
    2-5  Chairman
    2-6                               * * * * *
    2-7                               WITNESSES
    2-8                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
    2-9  ___________________________________________________________________
   2-10  Name:  Roger P. Dickey                           x
   2-11  Representing:  Hendrick Medical Center
   2-12  City:  Abilene
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