1-1  By:  Madden (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                 H.B. No. 2640
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Education; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to uniform dates for adding or dropping a course conducted
    1-9  by a public junior college.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Section 130.008 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 130.008.  UNIFORM DATES FOR ADDING OR DROPPING COURSE.
   1-14  (a)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule shall
   1-15  establish uniform final dates, counted from the first class day of
   1-16  an academic semester or term, for adding or dropping a course
   1-17  conducted by a public junior college.  The uniform dates apply to
   1-18  each public junior college in this state.
   1-19        (b)  A student may not enroll in a course after a uniform
   1-20  final date for adding a course established under this section.  A
   1-21  student is not entitled to a refund of any tuition or fees for a
   1-22  course that the student drops after a uniform final date for
   1-23  dropping a course established under this section.
   1-24        (c)  The rules may provide for different dates for academic
   1-25  semesters or terms of different durations.
   1-26        (d)  The board shall establish rules under this section not
   1-27  later than December 1, 1995.  The rules apply to each academic
   1-28  semester or term that begins on or after January 1, 1996.  This
   1-29  subsection expires September 1, 1996.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-35  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-36  passage, and it is so enacted.
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