By: Sibley S.B. No. 1861
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to defining a private or independent institution of higher
1-2 education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 61.003(15), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (15) "Private or independent institution of higher
1-7 education" includes only a private or independent college or
1-8 university that is:
1-9 (A) organized under the Texas Non-Profit
1-10 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-11 Statutes);
1-12 (B) exempt from taxation under Article VIII,
1-13 Section 2, of the Texas Constitution and Section 501(c)(3) of the
1-14 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 501); and
1-15 (C) accredited by the Commission on Colleges of
1-16 the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools or the Liaison
1-17 Committee on Medical Education [a recognized accrediting agency].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.