By:  Duncan                                           S.B. No. 1871

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to adjustments in the Investment Capital Fund.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 42.152, Education Code is amended by

 1-4     amending subsection (1) to read as follows:

 1-5           (1)  From the total amount of funds appropriated for

 1-6     allotments under this section, the commissioner shall, each fiscal

 1-7     year, withhold the amount of [$2.5] $5.0 million for transfer to

 1-8     the investment capital fund under Section 7.024.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.