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.