By Walker                                       H.B. No. 1140

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 132.063.  APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING.  (a)  A

 1-7     proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas  Higher

 1-8     Education Coordinating Board.

 1-9           (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not

1-10     require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass the test

1-11     adopted by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in

1-12     order to receive a degree.

1-13           SECTION 2.  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,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.