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Senate Bill 907 |
Senate Author: Perry |
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Effective: 6-19-15 |
House Sponsor: Frullo |
Senate Bill 907 amends the Education Code and the Labor Code to update and clarify certain provisions relating to the powers and duties of the board of regents of the Texas Tech University System and to entitle an eligible employee of the Texas Tech University System Administration or the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center at El Paso to participate in the workers' compensation program for state employees. Among other provisions, the bill authorizes the board to purchase a house or to purchase land and construct a house for a chancellor of the system or a president of a component university, clarifies the board's power of eminent domain, revises provisions regarding the board's authority to establish a certain type of museum, and updates and revises provisions relating to the management of university land and mineral development in university land.
The bill updates and revises provisions relating to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The bill removes the requirement that the board of regents act separately and independently on all matters affecting the center as a separate institution to instead establish that the board of regents has the same powers of governance, control, jurisdiction, and management over the center as it exercises over the Texas Tech University System and its components.