Bill Text: TX HB778 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an annual football game between The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Higher Education [HB778 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB778-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 778 | |
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| relating to an annual football game between The University of Texas | ||
| at Austin and Texas A&M University. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9246 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9246. FOOTBALL GAME BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | ||
| AT AUSTIN AND TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. (a) The intercollegiate | ||
| football teams of The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M | ||
| University shall annually play a nonconference, regular-season | ||
| football game against one another. | ||
| (b) If The University of Texas at Austin or Texas A&M | ||
| University refuses to play the football game required by Subsection | ||
| (a) in a year, the university may not award to any student for the | ||
| following academic year an athletic scholarship, grant, or similar | ||
| financial assistance funded with state money and conditioned on the | ||
| student's participation on the university's intercollegiate | ||
| football team. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9246, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the intercollegiate football | ||
| season for the 2014-2015 academic year. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
