By: Armbrister S.B. No. 668
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to enrollment in courses and programs at University of
1-2 Houston-Clear Lake and University of Houston-Victoria.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sec. 111.85, Education Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (a) The institution may enroll students who have
1-7 successfully completed thirty (30) hours of college coursework and
1-8 who are concurrently enrolled in another public or private
1-9 institution of higher education.
1-10 (b) The university is a general academic teaching
1-11 institution, and as such it is subject to the authority of the
1-12 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and
1-13 University System>.
1-14 SECTION 2. Sec. 111.96, Education Code, is amended to read
1-15 as follows:
1-16 The board of regents shall establish an upper-level
1-17 educational institution in the City of Victoria to be known as the
1-18 University of Houston-Victoria. The institution shall be organized
1-19 to offer only <provide for the instruction of> junior, senior, and
1-20 master's level programs <students>.
1-21 SECTION 3. Sec. 111.98, Education Code, is amended to read
1-22 as follows:
1-23 (a) The board of regents may prescribe courses leading to
2-1 appropriate degrees and adopt other rules necessary for the
2-2 operation and management of the institution.
2-3 (b) The institution may enroll students who have
2-4 successfully completed thirty (30) hours of college coursework and
2-5 who are concurrently enrolled in a public or private institution of
2-6 higher education.
2-7 (c) <(b)> The institution is subject to the authority of the
2-8 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.