By Ratliff                                             S.B. No. 180
       74R943 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the testing and remedial education of certain students
    1-3  enrolling in institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.306, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (q) to read as follows:
    1-7        (q)  This section does not apply to a student who graduated
    1-8  from high school at least 10 years before the date the student
    1-9  enters an institution of higher education.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-16  passage, and it is so enacted.