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.
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