1-1  By:  Harris (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 2066
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to enrollment in courses and programs at the University of
    1-9  Houston-Clear Lake and the University of Houston-Victoria.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 111.83, Education Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 111.83.  ROLE AND SCOPE.  (a)  The university shall be
   1-14  organized to offer only junior, senior, and graduate-level
   1-15  programs.
   1-16        (b)  The university may enroll a student who has successfully
   1-17  completed at least 30 semester credit hours of course work at a
   1-18  public or private institution of higher education and who is
   1-19  concurrently enrolled in another public or private institution of
   1-20  higher education.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  Section 111.96, Education Code, is amended to
   1-22  read as follows:
   1-23        Sec. 111.96.  ESTABLISHMENT:  SCOPE.  (a)  The board of
   1-24  regents shall establish an upper-level educational institution in
   1-25  the City of Victoria to be known as the University of
   1-26  Houston-Victoria.
   1-27        (b)  The institution shall be organized to offer only
   1-28  <provide for the instruction of> junior, senior, and master's level
   1-29  programs <students>.
   1-30        (c)  The institution may enroll a student who has
   1-31  successfully completed at least 30 semester credit hours of course
   1-32  work at a public or private institution of higher education and who
   1-33  is concurrently enrolled in another public or private institution
   1-34  of higher education.
   1-35        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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