By: Williams S.B. No. 2045

(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2009; March 31, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 22, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 14, Nays 0; April 22, 2009, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2045 By: Williams

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to certain constitutionally dedicated funds allocated to the Lamar Institute of Technology and to the administration of that institution.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 96.703, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The board shall establish and maintain in the city of Beaumont [an educational center of Lamar University] as a separate degree-granting institution a lower-division institution of higher education to be known as Lamar Institute of Technology.

SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 96.703, Education Code, is repealed.

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, 2009.

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