By Ogden                                              H.B. No. 3122
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a university-sponsored debit card program at Texas A&M
    1-3  University.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 86.25 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 86.25.  DEBIT CARD PROGRAM.  (a)  The governing board of
    1-8  The Texas A&M University System may establish a debit card program
    1-9  for the benefit of students.
   1-10        (b)  Such cards shall not be limited exclusively to on-campus
   1-11  use for essentially the same merchandise or services.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The debit card program must conform to this
   1-13  legislation by August 15, 1996.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.