1-1     By:  Sibley, Nelson, Haywood                          S.B. No. 1859
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 13, 1999; April 14, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 1999,
 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1859               By:  Zaffirini
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the creation of the Texas Woman's University System.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  The chapter heading to Chapter 107, Education
1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13                CHAPTER 107.  TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
1-14           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 107, Education Code, is
1-15     amended by adding Section 107.001 to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 107.001.  TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.  (a)  The
1-17     Texas Woman's University System hereby created, in its entirety as
1-18     one appropriations agency, is composed of all those units,
1-19     divisions, institutions, and other agencies of higher education
1-20     presently under the governance, control, jurisdiction, and
1-21     management of the board of regents of Texas Woman's University.
1-22           (b)  The governance, control, jurisdiction, organization, and
1-23     management of the Texas Woman's University System and each
1-24     component of the system is hereby vested in the present board of
1-25     regents of Texas Woman's University, which will hereinafter be
1-26     known and designated as the board of regents of Texas Woman's
1-27     University System.
1-28           SECTION 3.  Section 107.42, Education Code, is amended to
1-29     read as follows:
1-30           Sec. 107.42.  STAFF.  The board shall appoint a chancellor or
1-31     president of the university system and other officers and employees
1-32     of the system and its components it deems proper and shall fix
1-33     their salaries.  The board shall make rules and regulations for the
1-34     government of the [university's] staff of the system and its
1-35     components as it deems advisable.
1-36           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42     passage, and it is so enacted.
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