By Corte H.B. No. 2303 74R6834 SMH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a temporary exemption from the requirement to obtain a 1-3 certificate of authority for certain private postsecondary 1-4 educational institutions. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 61.303, Education Code, is amended by 1-7 adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-8 (i) This subchapter does not apply to a private 1-9 postsecondary educational institution chartered by the secretary of 1-10 state and in operation on June 19, 1975. This subsection expires 1-11 September 1, 1998. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.