By: Rosson S.B. No. 300
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the commissioner of higher education.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
1-4 amended by amending section 61.028(a) to read as follows:
1-5 (a) The <board> governor with the advice and consent of the
1-6 senate shall appoint a commissioner of higher education, who shall
1-7 select and supervise the board's staff and perform other duties
1-8 delegated to him by the board. The commissioner shall serve at the
1-9 pleasure of the <board> governor.
1-10 SECTION 2. This act takes effect on September 1, 1993.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.