1-1 By: Sibley S.B. No. 1861
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 favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-5 April 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to defining a private or independent institution of higher
1-9 education.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subdivision (15), Section 61.003, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (15) "Private or independent institution of higher
1-14 education" includes only a private or independent college or
1-15 university that is:
1-16 (A) organized under the Texas Non-Profit
1-17 Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
1-18 Statutes);
1-19 (B) exempt from taxation under Article VIII,
1-20 Section 2, of the Texas Constitution and Section 501(c)(3) of the
1-21 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 501); and
1-22 (C) accredited by the Commission on Colleges of
1-23 the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools or the Liaison
1-24 Committee on Medical Education [a recognized accrediting agency].
1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31 passage, and it is so enacted.
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