By Wilson                                              H.B. No. 148

      75R1941 CAG-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the distribution of condoms at public and private

 1-3     institutions of higher education.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 51.950 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 51.950.  DISTRIBUTION OF CONDOMS.  (a)  Each institution

 1-8     shall provide a condom to a student enrolled at the institution who

 1-9     requests the condom.

1-10           (b)  An institution may charge a student for the cost of a

1-11     condom.

1-12           (c)  In this section, "institution" means an institution of

1-13     higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, or any other public

1-14     or private college or university in this state.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.