By:  Sibley                                           S.B. No. 1904

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to responsibility for state aircraft used for flight

 1-2     training programs by public postsecondary educational institutions.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 2205, Government Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 2205.046 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 2205.046.  AIRCRAFT FOR FLIGHT TRAINING PROGRAMS.

 1-7     (a)  The board may transfer aircraft to a public technical

 1-8     institute or other public postsecondary educational institution for

 1-9     use in the institution's flight training program.  Except as

1-10     provided by this section, the board has no responsibility for

1-11     aircraft transferred under this section.

1-12           (b)  As a condition to the transfer of the aircraft, the

1-13     institution must certify in writing to the board that the aircraft

1-14     will be properly maintained while in the custody and control of the

1-15     institution.  The board is entitled to inspect the aircraft without

1-16     notice for the purpose of insuring that the aircraft are properly

1-17     maintained.

1-18           (c)  The board may immediately reassume custody and control

1-19     of a transferred aircraft on a finding by the board that:

1-20                 (1)  the aircraft is not being properly maintained;

1-21                 (2)  the aircraft is being used for a purpose other

1-22     than flight training; or

1-23                 (3)  the institution has discontinued its flight

 2-1     training program.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.