By Sibley S.B. No. 726 74R2516 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to appropriations to an institution of higher education 1-3 for energy costs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.927, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-7 (j) The legislature shall base an institution's 1-8 appropriation for energy costs during a fiscal year on the sum of: 1-9 (1) the institution's estimated energy costs for that 1-10 fiscal year; and 1-11 (2) if a contract under this section is in effect, 50 1-12 percent of the institution's estimated net savings resulting from 1-13 the contract during the contract term, divided by the number of 1-14 years in the contract term. 1-15 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-16 (b) This Act does not apply to an appropriation enacted 1-17 before the effective date of this Act, without regard to the period 1-18 for which the appropriation is made. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.