By Shields H.B. No. 3715
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of higher education institutions under
1-3 the Higher Education Coordinating Act of 1965.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.302 (1), Subchapter G, Chapter 61,
1-6 Texas Education Code is amended as follows:
1-7 (2) "Private postsecondary educational institution" or
1-8 "institution" means an educational institution which:
1-9 (A) is not an institution of higher education as
1-10 defined by Section 61.003;
1-11 (B) is incorporated under the laws of this
1-12 state, maintains a place of business in this state, has a
1-13 representative present in this state, or solicits business in this
1-14 state; [and]
1-15 (C) furnishes or offers to furnish courses of
1-16 instruction in person, by electronic media, or by correspondence
1-17 leading to a degree or providing credits alleged to be applicable
1-18 to a degree[.]; and
1-19 (D) is not a seminary, theological educational
1-20 institution, divinity educational institution, parochial
1-21 educational institution, church-based educational institution,
2-1 church-related educational institution, religion-based educational
2-2 institution, or religion-related educational institution.
2-3 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-4 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.