By Wilson                                               H.B. No. 60
       74R1861 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the distribution of condoms at public and private
    1-3  institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 51.932 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.932.  DISTRIBUTION OF CONDOMS.  (a)  Each institution
    1-8  shall provide a condom to a student enrolled at the institution who
    1-9  requests the condom.
   1-10        (b)  An institution may charge a student for the cost of a
   1-11  condom.
   1-12        (c)  In this section, "institution" means an institution of
   1-13  higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, and any other
   1-14  public or private college or university in this state.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.