By Coleman                                            H.B. No. 2686
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to tuition charged for students of optometry.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 54.008, Subsection (e), Education Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (e)  The governing board of an institution of higher
 1-7     education shall set tuition for an optometry program at the
 1-8     institution at a rate that is at least equal to the rate prescribed
 1-9     by Subchapter B of this chapter but not more than four [three]
1-10     times the rate prescribed by Subchapter B of this chapter.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force form and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.