By Harris H.B. No. 2066
74R6517 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to enrollment in courses and programs at the University of
1-3 Houston-Clear Lake and the University of Houston-Victoria.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 111.83, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 111.83. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) The university shall be
1-8 organized to offer only junior, senior, and graduate-level
1-9 programs.
1-10 (b) The university may enroll a student who has successfully
1-11 completed at least 30 semester credit hours of course work at a
1-12 public or private institution of higher education and who is
1-13 concurrently enrolled in another public or private institution of
1-14 higher education.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 111.96, Education Code, is amended to
1-16 read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 111.96. ESTABLISHMENT: SCOPE. (a) The board of
1-18 regents shall establish an upper-level educational institution in
1-19 the City of Victoria to be known as the University of
1-20 Houston-Victoria.
1-21 (b) The institution shall be organized to offer only
1-22 <provide for the instruction of> junior, senior, and master's level
1-23 programs <students>.
1-24 (c) The institution may enroll a student who has
2-1 successfully completed at least 30 semester credit hours of course
2-2 work at a public or private institution of higher education and who
2-3 is concurrently enrolled in another public or private institution
2-4 of higher education.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.