By Madden H.B. No. 2640 74R711 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.