By Wilson H.B. No. 184 75R1942 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring the editorial governing boards and staff of 1-3 student publications at public institutions of higher education to 1-4 reflect the diversity of this state. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 51.955 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 51.955. EDITORIAL GOVERNING BOARDS AND STAFF OF STUDENT 1-9 PUBLICATIONS. (a) The editorial governing board and staff of each 1-10 student publication of an institution of higher education must 1-11 reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of this state. 1-12 (b) Each institution of higher education shall adopt rules 1-13 to implement and enforce this section. 1-14 (c) In this section, "institution of higher education" has 1-15 the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. Not later than November 1, 1997, each institution 1-18 of higher education shall adopt initial rules required by 1-19 Section 51.955, Education Code, as added by this Act. 1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.