75R12046 MLS-F By Alexander H.B. No. 2491 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2491: By Cuellar C.S.H.B. No. 2491 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to participation by community colleges in the state 1-3 employee charitable contribution program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 659, Government Code, as 1-6 added by Chapter 76, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1-7 1995, is amended by adding Section 659.1311 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 659.1311. PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES. For purposes of this 1-9 subchapter, a public junior college is not considered to be an 1-10 institution of higher education and employees of the public junior 1-11 college are not considered to be state employees during a state 1-12 fiscal year unless an affirmative decision to participate under 1-13 this subchapter is made by the governing board of the public junior 1-14 college not later than April 1 of the previous state fiscal year. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.