76R8345 CAG-D                           
         By Gray, et al.                                        H.B. No. 888
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 888:
         By Brown of Brazos                                 C.S.H.B. No. 888
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to graduate level instruction at Texas A&M University at
 1-3     Galveston.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 87.201(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Texas A&M University at Galveston is a special purpose
 1-8     institution of higher education for undergraduate and graduate
 1-9     instruction in marine and maritime studies in science, engineering,
1-10     and business and for research and public service related to the
1-11     general field of marine resources.  The institution is under the
1-12     management and control of the board of regents of The Texas A&M
1-13     University System, with degrees offered under the name and
1-14     authority of Texas A&M University at College Station.  The board of
1-15     regents of The Texas A&M University System shall have the authority
1-16     to designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as a branch of Texas
1-17     A&M University;  however, such designation, if made, shall not
1-18     change the role and mission of Texas A&M University at Galveston as
1-19     specified in this section.
1-20           SECTION 2.  Texas A&M University at Galveston may offer
1-21     graduate instruction under Section 87.201(a), Education Code, as
1-22     amended by this Act, only if the institution's plans to offer
1-23     graduate instruction have been reviewed and approved by the Texas
1-24     Higher Education Coordinating Board.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.