By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 619
75R4057 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to meetings of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-3 Board.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.025(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) The board shall hold regular quarterly meetings in the
1-8 city of Austin. The board may not hold a meeting other than a
1-9 meeting required by this subsection.[, and other meetings at places
1-10 and times scheduled by it in formal sessions and called by the
1-11 chairman.]
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.