Bill Text: TX HB981 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on the feasibility of establishing a religious studies program at Texas Southern University.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB981 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB981-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 981 |
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relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board on the feasibility of establishing a religious studies | ||
program at Texas Southern University. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.06695 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.06695. STUDY ON RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM AT TEXAS | ||
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. (a) The board shall conduct a study on the | ||
feasibility of establishing a religious studies program that offers | ||
bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at Texas Southern | ||
University. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1, 2022, the board shall submit | ||
to each legislative standing committee with primary jurisdiction | ||
over higher education and the board of regents of Texas Southern | ||
University a report on the results of the study. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 981 was passed by the House on May 8, | ||
2021, by the following vote: Yeas 110, Nays 29, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 981 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 107, Nays 34, | ||
1 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 981 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |