By:  Rudd                                             H.B. No. 1207
       73R4576 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the allocation of certain constitutionally dedicated
    1-3  funding for public institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 62.021(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Each fiscal year, an eligible institution is entitled to
    1-8  receive an amount allocated in accordance with this section from
    1-9  funds appropriated by Article VII, Section 17(a), of the
   1-10  Constitution of Texas.  The comptroller of public accounts shall
   1-11  distribute funds allocated under this subsection only on
   1-12  presentation of a claim and issuance of a warrant in accordance
   1-13  with Section 403.071, Government Code.  The comptroller may not
   1-14  issue a warrant from any funds allocated under this subsection
   1-15  before the delivery of goods or services described in Section 17,
   1-16  Article VII, Texas Constitution, except for the payment of
   1-17  principal or interest on bonds or notes.  The Texas Higher
   1-18  Education Coordinating Board shall allocate <allocation of> funds
   1-19  under this subsection <is made> in accordance with an equitable
   1-20  formula consisting of the following elements:  space deficit,
   1-21  facilities condition, institutional complexity, separate allocation
   1-22  for medical units, and additional allocation for compliance with
   1-23  the Texas Desegregation Plan.  The Texas Higher Education
   1-24  Coordinating Board shall publish the  amounts allocated by such
    2-1  formula in the Texas Register <are as follows:>
    2-2  <$ 2,971,685>     <East Texas State University including>
    2-3                   <East Texas State University at>
    2-4                   <Texarkana;>
    2-5  <$ 7,125,680>     <Lamar University including Lamar>
    2-6                   <University at Orange and Lamar>
    2-7                   <University at Port Arthur;>
    2-8  <$ 1,645,885>     <Midwestern State University;>
    2-9  <$11,444,067>     <University of North Texas;>
   2-10  <$ 3,196,287>     <Pan American University and The>
   2-11                   <University>
   2-12                   <of Texas at Brownsville;>
   2-13  <$ 5,152,124>     <Stephen F. Austin State University;>
   2-14  <$ 2,166,667>     <Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine;>
   2-15  <$19,724,411>     <Texas State University System>
   2-16                   <Administration and the following>
   2-17                   <component institutions:>
   2-18                   <Angelo State University;>
   2-19                   <Sam Houston State University;>
   2-20                   <Southwest Texas State University;>
   2-21                   <Sul Ross State University including>
   2-22                   <Uvalde Study Center;>
   2-23  <$ 6,596,436>     <Texas Southern University (includes>
   2-24                   <allocation of $2,700,000 for>
   2-25                   <compliance with Texas Desegregation>
   2-26                   <Plan);>
   2-27  <$10,538,296>     <Texas Tech University;>
    3-1  <$ 4,333,333>     <Texas Tech University Health Sciences>
    3-2                   <Center;>
    3-3  <$ 3,583,869>     <Texas Woman's University;>
    3-4  <$15,799,996>     <University of Houston System>
    3-5                   <Administration and the following>
    3-6                   <component institutions:>
    3-7                   <University of Houston;>
    3-8                   <University of Houston--Victoria;>
    3-9                   <University of Houston--Clear Lake;>
   3-10                   <University of Houston--Downtown;>
   3-11  <$ 3,636,316>     <University System of South Texas>
   3-12                   <System Administration and the>
   3-13                   <following component institutions:>
   3-14                   <Corpus Christi State University;>
   3-15                   <Laredo State University;>
   3-16                   <Texas A&I University; and>
   3-17  <$ 2,084,948     West Texas State University>.
   3-18        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect on the date on which
   3-19  the constitutional amendment proposed by the 73rd Legislature,
   3-20  Regular Session, 1993, relating to increasing the amount of certain
   3-21  constitutionally dedicated funding for public institutions of
   3-22  higher education, is approved by the voters.  If that proposed
   3-23  constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act
   3-24  has no effect.
   3-25        (b)  Using the formula provided by Section 62.021(a),
   3-26  Education Code, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
   3-27  make the allocation under Section 62.021(a), Education Code, as
    4-1  amended by this Act, for the fiscal year beginning September 1,
    4-2  1994, and shall publish the amount allocated to each institution in
    4-3  the Texas Register not later than August 1, 1994.
    4-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    4-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    4-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    4-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    4-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    4-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
   4-10  terms, and it is so enacted.