By Lucio S.B. No. 988
76R7104 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the participation of The University of Texas--Pan
1-3 American in the engineering excellence fund.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.502(1), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Eligible institution" means the college,
1-8 department, or other unit of engineering at any of the following
1-9 institutions of higher education:
1-10 (A) The University of Texas at Austin;
1-11 (B) The University of Texas at Arlington;
1-12 (C) The University of Texas at El Paso;
1-13 (D) The University of Texas at San Antonio;
1-14 (E) The University of Texas of the Permian
1-15 Basin;
1-16 (F) Texas A&M University;
1-17 (G) Prairie View A&M University;
1-18 (H) Texas Tech University;
1-19 (I) Lamar University;
1-20 (J) University of Houston; [and]
1-21 (K) Texas A&M University--Kingsville; and
1-22 (L) The University of Texas--Pan American.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.