By Shapleigh                                           S.B. No. 502
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                                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.