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 continued maintenance of 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 1-14 institution will accept full responsibility for maintenance of the 1-15 aircraft and that it will be properly maintained while in the 1-16 custody and control of the institution. The board is entitled to 1-17 inspect the aircraft without notice for the purpose of insuring 1-18 that the aircraft are properly maintained. 1-19 (c) The board may immediately reassume custody and control 1-20 of a transferred aircraft on a finding by the board that: 1-21 (1) the aircraft is not being properly maintained; 1-22 (2) the aircraft is being used for a purpose other 1-23 than flight training; or S.B. No. 1904 2-1 (3) the institution has discontinued its flight 2-2 training program. 2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1904 passed the Senate on April 17, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 10, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1904 passed the House, with amendment, on May 7, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, two present not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor