1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 502
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1999; February 15, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     April 26, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 26, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 502                By:  Zaffirini
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the use of the term "college" by certain educational
1-11     institutions.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 61.313, Education Code,
1-14     is amended to read as follows:
1-15           (e)  This section does not apply to a person who on September
1-16     1, 1997, used [uses] the term "college" or "university" in the
1-17     official name or title of a private postsecondary educational
1-18     institution that was established before September 1, 1975.  A
1-19     person[, and an institution] covered by this subsection is not
1-20     required to remove the term "college" or "university" from the name
1-21     or title of the institution established before September 1, 1975.
1-22     A person covered by this subsection may use the term "college" in
1-23     the official name or title of another private postsecondary
1-24     educational institution in this state if:
1-25                 (1)  the person's business name on September 1, 1995,
1-26     included the term "college"; and
1-27                 (2)  the other institution offers the same or similar
1-28     educational programs and is located in the same county as the
1-29     institution established before September 1, 1975.
1-30           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36     passage, and it is so enacted.
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