By Black H.B. No. 2132 74R7496 SMH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment of Central Texas University. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 113, Education Code, takes effect 1-5 September 1, 1999, notwithstanding Section 3(a), Chapter 1255, Acts 1-6 of the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, but only if before 1-7 that date: 1-8 (1) the American Educational Complex, a public junior 1-9 college located in the city of Killeen, and American Technological 1-10 University, a private upper-level institution of higher education 1-11 located in the city of Killeen, are dissolved or abolished, as 1-12 appropriate; and 1-13 (2) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 1-14 approves the dissolution or abolition, as appropriate, of the 1-15 American Educational Complex and the establishment of Central Texas 1-16 University. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.