Amend SB 1088 by striking SECTION 3 of the bill and adding
the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS:
      SECTION ___.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), this
Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
      (b)  Not later than August 31, 1999, the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board shall review and determine whether to
approve the creation of the Texas Tech University System as
provided by this Act.  If the coordinating board does not approve
the creation of that system on or before August 31, 1999, the Texas
Tech University System is not created and this Act has no effect.
      SECTION ____.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
terms, and it is so enacted.