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.
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