1-1  By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 668
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 1995; February 21, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to enrollment in courses and programs at the University of
    1-9  Houston-Clear Lake and the University of Houston-Victoria.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 111.85, Education Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 111.85.  AUTHORITY OF COORDINATING BOARD.  (a)  The
   1-14  institution may enroll students who have successfully completed 30
   1-15  hours of college coursework and who are concurrently enrolled in
   1-16  another public or private institution of higher education.
   1-17        (b)  The university is a general academic teaching
   1-18  institution, and as such it is subject to the authority of the
   1-19  Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and
   1-20  University System>.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  Section 111.96, Education Code, is amended to
   1-22  read as follows:
   1-23        Sec. 111.96.  ESTABLISHMENT:  SCOPE.  The board of regents
   1-24  shall establish an upper-level educational institution in the City
   1-25  of Victoria to be known as the University of Houston-Victoria.  The
   1-26  institution shall be organized to offer only <provide for the
   1-27  instruction of> junior, senior, and master's level programs
   1-28  <students>.
   1-29        SECTION 3.  Section 111.98, Education Code, is amended to
   1-30  read as follows:
   1-31        Sec. 111.98.  COURSES; ADMINISTRATION.  (a)  The board of
   1-32  regents may prescribe courses leading to appropriate degrees and
   1-33  adopt other rules necessary for the operation and management of the
   1-34  institution.
   1-35        (b)  The institution may enroll students who have
   1-36  successfully completed 30 hours of college coursework and who are
   1-37  concurrently enrolled in a public or private institution of higher
   1-38  education.
   1-39        (c)  The institution is subject to the authority of the Texas
   1-40  Higher Education Coordinating Board.
   1-41        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-42  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-43  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-44  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-45  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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