By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 726
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to appropriations to an institution of higher education
    1-2  for energy costs.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 51.927, Education Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    1-6        (j)  The legislature shall base an institution's
    1-7  appropriation for energy costs during a fiscal year on the sum of:
    1-8              (1)  the institution's estimated energy costs for that
    1-9  fiscal year; and
   1-10              (2)  if a contract under this section is in effect, the
   1-11  institution's estimated net savings resulting from the contract
   1-12  during the contract term, divided by the number of years in the
   1-13  contract term.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        (b)  This Act does not apply to an appropriation enacted
   1-16  before the effective date of this Act, without regard to the period
   1-17  for which the appropriation is made.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.