By: Jackson S.B. No. 344 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to graduate level instruction at Texas A&M University at 1-2 Galveston. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 87.201, Education Code, 1-5 is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) Texas A&M University at Galveston is a special purpose 1-7 institution of higher education for undergraduate and graduate 1-8 instruction in marine and maritime studies in science, engineering, 1-9 and business and for research and public service related to the 1-10 general field of marine resources. The institution is under the 1-11 management and control of the board of regents of The Texas A&M 1-12 University System, with degrees offered under the name and 1-13 authority of Texas A&M University at College Station. The board of 1-14 regents of The Texas A&M University System shall have the authority 1-15 to designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as a branch of Texas 1-16 A&M University; however, such designation, if made, shall not 1-17 change the role and mission of Texas A&M University at Galveston as 1-18 specified in this section. 1-19 SECTION 2. Texas A&M University at Galveston may offer 1-20 graduate instruction under Subsection (a), Section 87.201, 1-21 Education Code, as amended by this Act, only if the institution's 1-22 plans to offer graduate instruction have been reviewed and approved 1-23 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.