By Walker H.B. No. 1060 76R5091 CAG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 132.063. APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING. (a) A 1-7 proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas Higher 1-8 Education Coordinating Board. 1-9 (b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not 1-10 require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass a test 1-11 prescribed by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in 1-12 order to receive a degree. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.