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 Subsection (c), Section 96.703, Education Code, is repealed.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