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Senate Bill 629 |
Senate Author: West et al. |
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Effective: See below |
House Sponsor: Aycock et al. |
Senate Bill 629 amends the Education Code to remove provisions that set the minimum full-time student enrollment equivalent threshold required for Texas A&M University--Kingsville System Center--San Antonio to operate as a general academic teaching institution known as Texas A&M University--San Antonio at either 1,000 full-time students for a semester contingent on the legislature authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds to finance educational and related facilities for the institution and the subsequent issuance of those bonds or at 2,500 full-time students for a semester in the absence of such bonding authority, allowing the center to become a freestanding public university upon reaching the enrollment equivalent requirement of 1,000 full-time students for one semester.
Senate Bill 629 removes a provision prohibiting the University of North Texas at Dallas from receiving general revenue in excess of the 2003 expended amount, with certain exceptions, before reaching 2,500 full-time equivalent students and a provision making the institution ineligible to receive the small school supplement in the General Academic Instruction and Operations Formula until it reaches a 2,500 full-time equivalent student enrollment.
Senate Bill 629 repeals Education Code provisions that prohibited The Texas A&M University System board of regents from issuing bonds for facilities at Texas A&M University--Central Texas and at Texas A&M University--San Antonio until the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board certified each campus had reached an enrollment equivalent of 1,500 full-time students and that provided for the bonding authority's expiration if the enrollment thresholds were not reached by January 1, 2010. The bill repeals a similar provision that prohibited the University of North Texas System board of regents from issuing bonds for facilities at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus until that campus reached a coordinating board-certified enrollment equivalent of 1,500 full-time students and that provided for the bonding authority's expiration if the enrollment threshold was not reached by January 1, 2010.
Senate Bill 629 takes effect May 23, 2009, only if a specific appropriation for the implementation of the bill is provided in a general appropriations act of the 81st Legislature. If a specific appropriation is not provided, the bill does not take effect.