By Gray H.B. No. 2544 75R8856 CAG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the power of the board of regents of The Texas A&M 1-3 University System to designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as 1-4 a branch campus of Texas A&M University. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 87.201, Education Code, is amended by 1-7 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-8 (c) The board of regents of The Texas A&M University System 1-9 may designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as a branch campus 1-10 of Texas A&M University. A designation under this subsection may 1-11 not change the role or mission of Texas A&M University at Galveston 1-12 as described in this subchapter. A designation under this 1-13 subsection is effective when the board publishes notice of the 1-14 designation in the Texas Register. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.