1-1 By: Sibley, Moncrief, Haywood, Nelson S.B. No. 751
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1999; March 2, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 12, 1999,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0;
1-5 April 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of the University of North Texas
1-9 System.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 105, Education
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 CHAPTER 105. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM
1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 105, Education Code, is
1-15 amended by adding Section 105.005 to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 105.005. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM. The
1-17 University of North Texas System is composed of:
1-18 (1) the University of North Texas; and
1-19 (2) the University of North Texas Health Science
1-20 Center at Fort Worth.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 105.11, Education Code, is amended to
1-22 read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 105.11. BOARD OF REGENTS. The organization, control,
1-24 and management of the University of North Texas System and each
1-25 component institution of the system [university] is vested in a
1-26 board of nine regents appointed by the governor and confirmed by
1-27 the senate.
1-28 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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