1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 1904 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 21, 1997; March 25, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 April 7, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13, 1-5 Nays 0; April 7, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to responsibility for state aircraft used for flight 1-9 training programs by public postsecondary educational institutions. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2205, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 2205.046 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 2205.046. AIRCRAFT FOR FLIGHT TRAINING PROGRAMS. 1-14 (a) The board may transfer aircraft to a public technical 1-15 institute or other public postsecondary educational institution for 1-16 use in the institution's flight training program. Except as 1-17 provided by this section, the board has no responsibility for 1-18 aircraft transferred under this section. 1-19 (b) As a condition to the transfer of the aircraft, the 1-20 institution must certify in writing to the board that the aircraft 1-21 will be properly maintained while in the custody and control of the 1-22 institution. The board is entitled to inspect the aircraft without 1-23 notice for the purpose of insuring that the aircraft are properly 1-24 maintained. 1-25 (c) The board may immediately reassume custody and control 1-26 of a transferred aircraft on a finding by the board that: 1-27 (1) the aircraft is not being properly maintained; 1-28 (2) the aircraft is being used for a purpose other 1-29 than flight training; or 1-30 (3) the institution has discontinued its flight 1-31 training program. 1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * *