By Hirschi H.B. No. 2067 74R7099 JSA-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the issuance of bonds by Midwestern State University. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 55, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 55.173 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 55.173. MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY. (a) The board of 1-7 regents of Midwestern State University may construct and equip a 1-8 classroom-laboratory facility to support the university's allied 1-9 health science programs, including nursing, radiological 1-10 technology, dental hygiene, and respiratory care, and programs in 1-11 the social and behavorial sciences, political science, and criminal 1-12 justice at the university, to be financed by the issuance of bonds 1-13 in accordance with this subchapter in the aggregate principal 1-14 amount of $9 million. The authority granted by this section is in 1-15 addition to authority granted to the board by another section of 1-16 this subchapter. 1-17 (b) The board may pledge irrevocably to the payment of those 1-18 bonds all or any part of the revenue funds of Midwestern State 1-19 University, including student tuition charges required or 1-20 authorized by law to be imposed on students enrolled at the 1-21 university. The amount of a pledge made under this subsection may 1-22 not be reduced or abrogated while the bonds for which the pledge is 1-23 made, or bonds issued to refund those bonds, are outstanding. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.