AN ACT
1-1 relating to the use of the term "college" by certain educational
1-2 institutions.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 61.313, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (e) This section does not apply to a person who on September
1-7 1, 1997, used [uses] the term "college" or "university" in the
1-8 official name or title of a private postsecondary educational
1-9 institution that was established before September 1, 1975. A
1-10 person[, and an institution] covered by this subsection is not
1-11 required to remove the term "college" or "university" from the name
1-12 or title of the institution established before September 1, 1975.
1-13 A person covered by this subsection may use the term "college" in
1-14 the official name or title of another private postsecondary
1-15 educational institution in this state if:
1-16 (1) the person's business name on September 1, 1995,
1-17 included the term "college"; and
1-18 (2) the other institution offers the same or similar
1-19 educational programs and is located in the same county as the
1-20 institution established before September 1, 1975.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 502 passed the Senate on
May 3, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 502 passed the House on
May 12, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, one present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor