1-1 By: Gallegos S.B. No. 591
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1997; February 18, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 March 25, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; March 25, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to courses and programs at the University of
1-9 Houston-Downtown.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 111.92, Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 111.92. ROLE AND SCOPE. The institution shall be
1-14 organized to offer [four year] undergraduate and graduate programs
1-15 subject to the authority of the board of regents of the University
1-16 of Houston System and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-17 Board[, Texas College and University System].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
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