1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the acquisition of goods and services by certain
 1-3     medical and dental institutions of higher education.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 51.9335(f), Education Code, is repealed.
 1-6           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 1-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 1-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 1-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-11     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-12     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1615 was passed by the House on March
         24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1615 was passed by the Senate on May
         17, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor