By: Lucio S.B. No. 1306 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to 1-4 read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 132.063. APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING. (a) A 1-6 proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas Higher 1-7 Education Coordinating Board. 1-8 (b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not 1-9 require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass the test 1-10 adopted by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in 1-11 order to receive a degree. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-19 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-20 Amend S.B. No. 1306 in SECTION 1 of the bill, in proposed 1-21 Section 132.063(b), Education Code (page 1, line 11, engrossed 1-22 printing), by striking "degree" and substituting "certificate". 1-23 75R12904 JSA-D Solis