By: Hegar  S.B. No. 2007
         (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2009; March 24, 2009, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
  April 29, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
  Nays 0; April 29, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to Prairie View A&M University's eligibility to
  participate in the research development fund.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (2), Section 62.092, Education Code,
  is amended to read as follows:
               (2)  "Eligible institution" means a general academic
  teaching institution, as defined by Section 61.003, other than The
  University of Texas at Austin or[,] Texas A&M University[, or
  Prairie View A&M University].
         SECTION 2.  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, 2009.
 
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