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.
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