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.
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