By Ehrhardt                                            H.B. No. 364
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a prohibition of discrimination by public educational
 1-3     institutions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 1, Education Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Section 1.0021 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 1.0021.  DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.  A public
 1-8     educational institution or employee of a public educational
 1-9     institution may not discriminate against a student enrolled in the
1-10     institution on account of ethnicity, color, gender, sexual
1-11     orientation, religion, or national origin.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.