By: Brimer, Zaffirini  S.B. No. 469
         (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2007; February 21, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Subcommittee on Higher
  Education; April 4, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 4, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the creation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
  Board of a certificate of recognition for persons who contribute
  certain gifts or donations to public institutions of higher
  education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 61.0901 to read as follows:
         Sec. 61.0901.  CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FOR MAJOR DONORS
  TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.  (a)  The board shall design
  and produce a certificate of recognition for presentation by an
  institution of higher education to a person who in any year
  contributes to the institution for the support of any purposes,
  programs, or activities of the institution one or more gifts or
  donations in a total amount of at least $10,000.
         (b)  On receipt of a written request from an institution of
  higher education providing the information necessary to establish
  the donor's eligibility for the certificate, the board shall
  prepare and provide at no cost to the institution a certificate of
  recognition designed by the board under this section recognizing
  the gifts or donations of a person described by Subsection (a).
         SECTION 2.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  shall design and produce the certificate of recognition required by
  Section 61.0901, Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as
  practicable after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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