S.B. No. 362
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the designation of the University of Houston-Victoria
    1-2  as an educational institution.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 111.96, Education Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 111.96.  ESTABLISHMENT:  SCOPE.  The board of regents
    1-7  shall establish an upper-level educational institution <center> in
    1-8  the City of Victoria to be known as the University of
    1-9  Houston-Victoria.  The institution <center> shall be organized to
   1-10  provide for the instruction of junior, senior, and master's level
   1-11  students.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 111.97, Education Code, is amended to
   1-13  read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 111.97.  FACILITIES;  GRANTS.  The board of regents may
   1-15  accept and administer gifts and grants for the use and benefit of
   1-16  the institution <center>.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  Section 111.98, Education Code, is amended to
   1-18  read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 111.98.  COURSES;  ADMINISTRATION.  (a)  The board of
   1-20  regents may prescribe courses leading to appropriate degrees and
   1-21  adopt other rules necessary for the operation and management of the
   1-22  institution <center>.
   1-23        (b)  The institution <center> is subject to the authority of
    2-1  the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and
    2-2  University System>.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.