1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1851
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 18, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1851 By: Galloway
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the violation of a rule of a national collegiate
1-11 athletic association.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 131.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
1-14 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 131.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
1-16 (1) "National collegiate athletic association" means a
1-17 national collegiate athletic association with one or more member
1-18 institutions in 40 or more states, including Texas.
1-19 (2) "Person" does not include a government or
1-20 governmental subdivision or agency.
1-21 (3) "Regional collegiate athletic association" means a
1-22 regional collegiate athletic association with one or more [the
1-23 majority] of its member institutions in Texas.
1-24 (4) "Institution" means a public or private
1-25 institution of higher education, including any senior college,
1-26 university, community college, technical institute, or junior
1-27 college.
1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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