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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