By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 406
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to
 1-4     read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 132.063.  APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING.  (a)  A
 1-6     proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas Higher
 1-7     Education Coordinating Board.
 1-8           (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not
 1-9     require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass the test
1-10     adopted by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in
1-11     order to receive a degree.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.