By Montford S.B. No. 671
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 671:
By Junell C.S.S.B. No. 671
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the requirement that institutions of higher education
1-3 deposit certain funds and receipts in the state treasury.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.008, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 adding subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-7 (g) Revenues collected at institutions of higher education
1-8 and deposited in the state treasury pursuant to this section and
1-9 Natural Resources Code Sec. 34.017, and the interest earned
1-10 thereon, are dedicated to the institution which collected and
1-11 deposited the funds irrespective of the year the funds were
1-12 collected, deposited or earned. These funds may be only used for
1-13 the support, maintenance and operation of the institution as
1-14 provided for by law. Section 403.094(h), Government Code, does not
1-15 apply to funds described in this section.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-17 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-18 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 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,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
1-23 terms, and it is so enacted.