By Wilson                                               H.B. No. 63
       74R1863 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring the editorial governing boards and staff of
    1-3  student publications at public institutions of higher education to
    1-4  reflect the diversity of this state.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 51.932 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 51.932.  EDITORIAL GOVERNING BOARDS AND STAFF OF STUDENT
    1-9  PUBLICATIONS.  (a)  The editorial governing board and staff of each
   1-10  student publication of an institution of higher education must
   1-11  reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of this state.
   1-12        (b)  Each institution of higher education shall adopt rules
   1-13  to implement and enforce this section.
   1-14        (c)  In this section, "institution of higher education" has
   1-15  the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  Not later than November 1, 1995, each institution
   1-18  of higher education shall adopt initial rules required by
   1-19  Section 51.932, Education Code, as added by this Act.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.