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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