By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1851

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                                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, Chapter 131, Title 6, Civil

 1-5     Practice and Remedies 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

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.