CHAPTER NO. 581

SENATE BILL NO. 2118

By Springer, Dixon

Substituted for: House Bill No. 2168

By Kernell, Garrett, Brooks

AN ACT To amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 29 and Title 12, Chapter 7, relative to the higher education and technical institutions publication committee.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 4-29-223(a), is amended by adding the following as a new item thereto:

( ) Higher education and technical institutions publication committee, created by Section 12-7-106;

SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 12-7-106(a), is amended by deleting the first sentence in its entirety and by substituting instead the following:

To control publications of higher education institutions and technical institutes, there is hereby established a publications committee which shall consist of the executive director of the Tennessee higher education commission, or the executive director's designee, the president of the University of Tennessee system, or the president's designee, the chancellor of the state board of regents, or the chancellor's designee, and the commissioner of education or the commissioner's designee.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 1998, the public welfare requiring it.

PASSED:

FEBRUARY 9, 1998

APPROVED this

25th

Day of

February

1998