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.