By Lewis of Orange                                     H.B. No. 792

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to meetings of the State Board of Education.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 7.106, Education Code, is amended to read

 1-5     as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 7.106.  MEETINGS.  (a)  The board shall hold regular

 1-7     quarterly [four] meetings [a year] in Austin, Texas[, on dates

 1-8     determined by the chair and may hold other meetings as may be

 1-9     called by the chair].

1-10           (b)  The board may not hold a meeting other than a meeting

1-11     required by Subsection (a).

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.