H.B. No. 2640
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to uniform dates for adding or dropping a course conducted
    1-3  by a public junior college.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 130.008 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 130.008.  UNIFORM DATES FOR ADDING OR DROPPING COURSE.
    1-8  (a)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule shall
    1-9  establish uniform final dates, counted from the first class day of
   1-10  an academic semester or term, for adding or dropping a course
   1-11  conducted by a public junior college.  The uniform dates apply to
   1-12  each public junior college in this state.
   1-13        (b)  A student may not enroll in a course after a uniform
   1-14  final date for adding a course established under this section.  A
   1-15  student is not entitled to a refund of any tuition or fees for a
   1-16  course that the student drops after a uniform final date for
   1-17  dropping a course established under this section.
   1-18        (c)  The rules may provide for different dates for academic
   1-19  semesters or terms of different durations.
   1-20        (d)  The board shall establish rules under this section not
   1-21  later than December 1, 1995.  The rules apply to each academic
   1-22  semester or term that begins on or after January 1, 1996.  This
   1-23  subsection expires September 1, 1996.
   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.