AN ACT
1-1 relating to courses and programs at the University of
1-2 Houston-Downtown.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 111.92, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 111.92. ROLE AND SCOPE. The institution shall be
1-7 organized to offer [four year] undergraduate and graduate programs
1-8 subject to the authority of the board of regents of the University
1-9 of Houston System and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-10 Board[, Texas College and University System].
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 591 passed the Senate on
April 14, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 591 passed the House on
May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor