By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 875
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the Sul Ross State University Uvalde Study Center.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. (a) The name of the Sul Ross State University
1-4 Uvalde Study Center is changed to Sul Ross State University Rio
1-5 Grande College.
1-6 (b) A reference in law to the Sul Ross State University
1-7 Uvalde Study Center means Sul Ross State University Rio Grande
1-8 College.
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 96.01, Education Code, is amended to read
1-10 as follows:
1-11 Sec. 96.01. SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY. Sul Ross State
1-12 University is a coeducational institution of higher education
1-13 located in the city of Alpine, with an upper-level educational
1-14 center known as Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College
1-15 operated in the cities of Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and Uvalde. The
1-16 university <It> is under the management and control of the Board of
1-17 Regents, Texas University System.
1-18 SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 96, Education Code, is
1-19 amended by adding Section 96.02 to read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 96.02. REFERENCE TO UVALDE STUDY CENTER. A reference
1-21 in law to the Uvalde Study Center of Sul Ross State University
1-22 means Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.