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.
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