1-1     By:  Lucio                                            S.B. No. 1306

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 18, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 10, 1997,

 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-5     April 10, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to

1-11     read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 132.063.  APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING.  (a)  A

1-13     proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas Higher

1-14     Education Coordinating Board.

1-15           (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not

1-16     require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass the test

1-17     adopted by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in

1-18     order to receive a degree.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

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