1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 1088 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1999; March 11, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 23, 1999, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; 1-5 April 23, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the creation of the Texas Tech University System. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 109, Education 1-11 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-12 CHAPTER 109. TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM 1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 109, Education Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 109.001 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 109.001. TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. (a) The Texas 1-16 Tech University System hereby created is composed of all those 1-17 institutions and entities presently under the governance, control, 1-18 jurisdiction, and management of the board of regents of Texas Tech 1-19 University. 1-20 (b) The Texas Tech University System shall also be composed 1-21 of such other institutions and entities as from time to time may be 1-22 assigned by specific legislative act to the governance, control, 1-23 jurisdiction, and management of the Texas Tech University System. 1-24 (c) The governance, control, jurisdiction, organization, and 1-25 management of the Texas Tech University System is hereby vested in 1-26 the present board of regents of Texas Tech University, which will 1-27 hereinafter be known and designated as the board of regents of the 1-28 Texas Tech University System. The board by rule may delegate a 1-29 power or duty of the board to an officer, employee, or other agent 1-30 of the board. 1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-37 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-38 * * * * *