By: Morrison, Deshotel, Hamilton H.B. No. 2424
(Senate Sponsor - Huffman)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2009;
May 7, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 13, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 13, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to exempting Lamar State College--Orange and Lamar State
College--Port Arthur from certain requirements relating to student
admissions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.805, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) This section does not apply to Lamar State
College--Orange or Lamar State College--Port Arthur as long as
those institutions operate as two-year lower-division institutions
of higher education.
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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