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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