1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 406
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 1999; February 8, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     March 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to academic testing of students in proprietary schools.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 132.063, Education Code, is amended to
1-11     read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 132.063.  APPROVED DEGREES; ACADEMIC TESTING.  (a)  A
1-13     proprietary school may offer a degree approved by the Texas Higher
1-14     Education Coordinating Board.
1-15           (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may not
1-16     require a student of a proprietary school to take or pass the test
1-17     adopted by the board under Section 51.306 or a similar test in
1-18     order to receive a degree.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-25     passage, and it is so enacted.
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