By: Williams S.B. No. 2045
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) In the city of Beaumont, the [The] board shall establish
and maintain a lower-division institution of higher education [an
educational center of Lamar University] as a separate
degree-granting institution 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is repealed.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.