By Ogden                                              H.B. No. 3122
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to university sponsored and or controlled debit card
    1-3  programs at state universities, junior colleges and community
    1-4  colleges.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 86 of the Education Code is amended by
    1-7  adding SECTION 86.25 to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  State colleges, universities and junior colleges are
    1-9  authorized to sponsor debit card programs for the benefit of their
   1-10  students.
   1-11        (b)  Such cards shall not be limited exclusively to on-campus
   1-12  use by the cardholder.
   1-13        (c)  All university sponsored debit cards must conform to
   1-14  this legislation by August 15, 1996.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-16  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.