By Kamel H.B. No. 63
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorizing certain public institutions of higher
1-3 education to operate a student debit card program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.940(a), Education Code, as added by
1-6 Chapter 316, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) This section applies only to:
1-9 (1) an institution that is a component of The Texas
1-10 A&M University System; [or]
1-11 (2) an institution that is a component of the Texas
1-12 State University System;
1-13 (3) an institution that is a component of The
1-14 University of Texas System; or
1-15 (4) a public junior college, as defined by Section
1-16 61.003.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.