1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 726 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 1995; February 23, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 April 12, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 12, 1995, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 726 By: Sibley 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to appropriations to an institution of higher education 1-11 for energy costs. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 51.927, Education Code, is amended by 1-14 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-15 (j) The legislature shall base an institution's 1-16 appropriation for energy costs during a fiscal year on the sum of: 1-17 (1) the institution's estimated energy costs for that 1-18 fiscal year; and 1-19 (2) if a contract under this section is in effect, the 1-20 institution's estimated net savings resulting from the contract 1-21 during the contract term, divided by the number of years in the 1-22 contract term. 1-23 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-24 (b) This Act does not apply to an appropriation enacted 1-25 before the effective date of this Act, without regard to the period 1-26 for which the appropriation is made. 1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-32 * * * * *