By Shapleigh S.B. No. 502
76R5248 JSA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of the term "college" by certain educational
1-3 institutions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.313(e), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (e) This section does not apply to a person who on September
1-8 1, 1997, uses the term "college" or "university" in the official
1-9 name or title of a private postsecondary educational institution
1-10 that was established before September 1, 1975. A person [, and an
1-11 institution] covered by this subsection is not required to remove
1-12 the term "college" or "university" from the name or title of the
1-13 institution established before September 1, 1975. A person covered
1-14 by this subsection may use the term "college" in the official name
1-15 or title of another private postsecondary educational institution
1-16 in this state if:
1-17 (1) the person's business name on September 1, 1995,
1-18 included the term "college"; and
1-19 (2) the other institution offers the same or similar
1-20 educational programs as the institution established before
1-21 September 1, 1975.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.