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.

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             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:

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                     Date

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                   Governor