By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 502
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       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.