Bill Text: TX HB537 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to fair treatment of all providers of instructional materials to students enrolled at public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB537-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Brown | H.B. No. 537 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 537: | |||
| By: Brown | C.S.H.B. No. 537 | ||
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| relating to fair treatment of all providers of instructional | ||
| materials to students enrolled at public institutions of higher | ||
| education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.949 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.949. FAIR TREATMENT OF PROVIDERS OF INSTRUCTIONAL | ||
| MATERIALS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (2) "Instructional materials" means any printed or | ||
| computer-generated educational material, including textbooks, or | ||
| any equipment or supplies that a student is required or recommended | ||
| to use in connection with a course at an institution of higher | ||
| education. | ||
| (b) An institution of higher education may not grant | ||
| preference to any provider of textbooks or other instructional | ||
| materials in conducting activities of the institution during | ||
| student orientation or as part of any program for repurchasing | ||
| instructional materials from students. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Section 51.949, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a semester or term that begins on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) Section 51.949, Education Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| does not affect the terms of a contract entered into before the | ||
| effective date of this Act, except that if the contract is renewed, | ||
| modified, or extended on or after the effective date of this Act, | ||
| Section 51.949 applies to the contract beginning on the date of | ||
| renewal, modification, or extension. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
