By Lewis of Orange                               H.B. No. 619

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                                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.