| 1 | 1 | | 86R4363 SOS-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Larson H.B. No. 412 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to an annual football game between The University of Texas |
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| 8 | 8 | | at Austin and Texas A&M University. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is |
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| 11 | 11 | | amended by adding Section 51.9246 to read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Sec. 51.9246. FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS |
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| 13 | 13 | | AT AUSTIN AND TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. (a) The intercollegiate |
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| 14 | 14 | | football teams of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M |
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| 15 | 15 | | University shall play a nonconference, regular-season football |
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| 16 | 16 | | game against one another on the fourth Thursday, Friday, or |
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| 17 | 17 | | Saturday of November each year. |
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| 18 | 18 | | (b) If The University of Texas at Austin or Texas A&M |
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| 19 | 19 | | University refuses to play the football game required by Subsection |
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| 20 | 20 | | (a) in a year, the university may not award to any student for the |
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| 21 | 21 | | following academic year an athletic scholarship, grant, or similar |
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| 22 | 22 | | financial assistance funded by state funds and conditioned on the |
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| 23 | 23 | | student's participation on the university's intercollegiate |
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| 24 | 24 | | football team. |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 2. Section 51.9246, Education Code, as added by |
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| 26 | 26 | | this Act, applies beginning with the intercollegiate football |
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| 27 | 27 | | season for the 2020-2021 academic year. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 29 | 29 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 30 | 30 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 31 | 31 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 32 | 32 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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