1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                    H.B. No. 1615
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1999;
 1-3     March 29, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 3, 1999, rereferred to the Committee on
 1-5     Administration; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-6     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the acquisition of goods and services by certain
1-10     medical and dental institutions of higher education.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 51.9335(f), Education Code, is repealed.
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.
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