By Goolsby                                            H.B. No. 3295
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the deposit of excess proprietary school fees to the
 1-3     proprietary school tuition protection fund.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 132.241, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  If at the end of a fiscal year the commission determines
 1-8     that it has collected fees under this chapter  in excess of the
 1-9     amount necessary to defray the cost and expense of administering
1-10     this chapter, the commission may transfer any portion of the excess
1-11     amount to the tuition protection fund.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  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                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-19           Amend House Bill No. 3295 by inserting the following on page
1-20     1, line 11 after the period:  The balance of the fund may not
1-21     exceed an amount greater than $250,000.
1-22                                                               Yarbrough