By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1851

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the violation of a rule of a national collegiate

 1-2     athletic association.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 131.001, Civil Practice and Remedies

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 131.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:

 1-7                 (1)  "National collegiate athletic association" means a

 1-8     national collegiate athletic association with one or more member

 1-9     institutions in 40 or more states, including Texas.

1-10                 (2)  "Person" does not include a government or

1-11     governmental subdivision or agency.

1-12                 (3)  "Regional collegiate athletic association" means a

1-13     regional collegiate athletic association with one or more [the

1-14     majority] of its member institutions in Texas.

1-15                 (4)  "Institution" means a public or private

1-16     institution of higher education, including any senior college,

1-17     university, community college, technical institute, or junior

1-18     college.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.