Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 1566 amends the Education Code to remove Texas A&M University--Texarkana's designation as an upper-level institution and to remove a prohibition against its offering of freshman or sophomore programs. The bill allows the university to offer lower-division courses but does not require it to do so in any year for which the legislature does not appropriate money for that purpose. The bill allows the university to offer lower-division courses on the campus of Texarkana College or in a permanent building on land acquired by the university for a permanent campus site, but it prohibits the university from offering such courses on the Texarkana College campus without the college's prior approval.