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.