1-1 By: Jackson S.B. No. 344 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 2, 1999; February 3, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 6, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 344 By: Zaffirini 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to graduate level instruction at Texas A&M University at 1-11 Galveston. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 87.201, Education Code, 1-14 is amended to read as follows: 1-15 (a) Texas A&M University at Galveston is a special purpose 1-16 institution of higher education for undergraduate and graduate 1-17 instruction in marine and maritime studies in science, engineering, 1-18 and business and for research and public service related to the 1-19 general field of marine resources. The institution is under the 1-20 management and control of the board of regents of The Texas A&M 1-21 University System, with degrees offered under the name and 1-22 authority of Texas A&M University at College Station. The board of 1-23 regents of The Texas A&M University System shall have the authority 1-24 to designate Texas A&M University at Galveston as a branch of Texas 1-25 A&M University; however, such designation, if made, shall not 1-26 change the role and mission of Texas A&M University at Galveston as 1-27 specified in this section. 1-28 SECTION 2. Texas A&M University at Galveston may offer 1-29 graduate instruction under Subsection (a), Section 87.201, 1-30 Education Code, as amended by this Act, only if the institution's 1-31 plans to offer graduate instruction have been reviewed and approved 1-32 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. 1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * *