1-1 By: Gray, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 888 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Education; April 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to graduate level instruction at Texas A&M University at 1-9 Galveston. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 87.201(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-12 read as follows: 1-13 (a) Texas A&M University at Galveston is a special purpose 1-14 institution of higher education for undergraduate and graduate 1-15 instruction in marine and maritime studies in science, engineering, 1-16 and business and for research and public service related to the 1-17 general field of marine resources. The institution is under the 1-18 management and control of the board of regents of The Texas A&M 1-19 University System, with degrees offered under the name and 1-20 authority of Texas A&M University at College Station. The board of 1-21 regents of The Texas A&M University System shall have the authority 1-22 to designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as a branch of Texas 1-23 A&M University; however, such designation, if made, shall not 1-24 change the role and mission of Texas A&M University at Galveston as 1-25 specified in this section. 1-26 SECTION 2. Texas A&M University at Galveston may offer 1-27 graduate instruction under Section 87.201(a), Education Code, as 1-28 amended by this Act, only if the institution's plans to offer 1-29 graduate instruction have been reviewed and approved by the Texas 1-30 Higher Education Coordinating Board. 1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-37 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-38 * * * * *