By:  Sibley, Moncrief                                  S.B. No. 751
              Haywood, Nelson
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the composition of the University of North Texas
 1-2     System.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  The chapter heading to Chapter 105, Education
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6                  CHAPTER 105.  UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM
 1-7           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 105, Education Code, is
 1-8     amended by adding Section 105.005 to read as follows:
 1-9           Sec. 105.005.  UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM.  The
1-10     University of North Texas System is composed of:
1-11                 (1)  the University of North Texas; and
1-12                 (2)  the University of North Texas Health Science
1-13     Center at Fort Worth.
1-14           SECTION 3.  Section 105.11, Education Code, is amended to
1-15     read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 105.11.  BOARD OF REGENTS.  The organization, control,
1-17     and management of the University of North Texas System and each
1-18     component institution of the system [university] is vested in a
1-19     board of nine regents appointed by the governor and confirmed by
1-20     the senate.
1-21           SECTION 4.  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.
 2-4                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 2-5           Amend  S.B. 751 by striking SECTION 4 of the bill and adding
 2-6     the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS:
 2-7           SECTION ____.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b),
 2-8     this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-9           (b)  Not later than August 31, 1999, the Texas Higher
2-10     Education Coordinating Board shall review and determine whether to
2-11     approve the creation of the University of North Texas System as
2-12     provided by this Act.  If the coordinating board does not approve
2-13     the creation of that system on or before August 31, 1999, the
2-14     University of North Texas System is not created and this Act has no
2-15     effect.
2-16           SECTION ____.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
2-22     terms, and it is so enacted.
2-23     76R14890 CAG-D                                               Rangel