By Lucio                                               S.B. No. 406
         76R5038 ESH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 132.063.  APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING.  (a)  A
 1-7     proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas  Higher
 1-8     Education Coordinating Board.
 1-9           (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not
1-10     require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass the test
1-11     adopted by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in
1-12     order to receive a degree.
1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.