73R10071 E
By Rodriguez, et al. H.B. No. 2056
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2056:
By Rangel C.S.H.B. No. 2056
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to The University of Texas at San Antonio and approval of
1-3 new departments, schools, and programs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 71.03, Education Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 Sec. 71.03. Courses and Degrees. (a) The board may
1-8 prescribe courses leading to such customary degrees as are offered
1-9 at leading American universities and may award those degrees. It
1-10 is the intent of the legislature that those degrees include
1-11 bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees and their equivalents,
1-12 and that there be established a standard four-year undergraduate
1-13 program.
1-14 (b) A<; but no> department, school, or degree program may
1-15 not be instituted except with the prior approval of the Texas
1-16 Higher Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and University
1-17 System>.
1-18 (c) At a minimum, the board, in accordance with Section
1-19 61.055(b) of this code, shall offer:
1-20 (1) baccalaureate programs in hospitality management;
1-21 radio, television, and film; international relations;
1-22 communications; graphic design; public administration; art history;
1-23 philosophy; and Mexican American studies;
1-24 (2) master's programs in technology management,
2-1 environmental geology, psychology, art history, sociology,
2-2 political science, hospitality management, earth science education,
2-3 urban studies, physics, regional planning, and criminal justice;
2-4 and
2-5 (3) doctoral programs in computer science, education
2-6 leadership, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil
2-7 engineering, and biology.
2-8 (d) The board, in accordance with Section 61.055(b) of this
2-9 code, shall cooperate with the board of regents of the Texas State
2-10 University System to offer educational administration programs at
2-11 the Alpine campus or the Uvalde Center of Sul Ross State
2-12 University.
2-13 (e) Beginning with the fall semester in 1995, the board
2-14 shall begin offering at least one-eighth of the courses and degrees
2-15 required by this section. Each academic year after the 1995-1996
2-16 academic year, the board shall offer at least an additional
2-17 one-eighth of the courses and degrees required by this section
2-18 until all the courses and degrees required by this section are
2-19 being offered. This subsection expires January 1, 2004.
2-20 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 65, Education Code, is
2-21 amended by adding Section 65.47 to read as follows:
2-22 Sec. 65.47. ENHANCEMENTS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN
2-23 ANTONIO. To the extent that funds are available for this purpose,
2-24 the board shall provide to The University of Texas at San Antonio
2-25 funding that is equal to or greater than the funding provided to
2-26 The University of Texas at Austin for:
2-27 (1) student support services;
3-1 (2) faculty salaries;
3-2 (3) libraries;
3-3 (4) student scholarships;
3-4 (5) student and faculty research;
3-5 (6) instructional and laboratory equipment; and
3-6 (7) community outreach programs.
3-7 SECTION 3. Section 61.055, Education Code, is amended to
3-8 read as follows:
3-9 Sec. 61.055. Initiation of New Departments, Schools, and
3-10 Programs. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
3-11 section, a <No> new department, school, or degree or certificate
3-12 program approved by the board or its predecessor, the Texas
3-13 Commission on Higher Education, may not be initiated by any
3-14 institution of higher education until the board has made a written
3-15 finding that the department, school, or degree or certificate
3-16 program is adequately financed by legislative appropriation, by
3-17 funds allocated by the board, or by funds from other sources.
3-18 (b) The coordinating board shall make a determination for
3-19 approval or disapproval of any department, school, or program that
3-20 is required by other law not later than the 13th month for doctoral
3-21 programs and the ninth month for departments, schools, and programs
3-22 other than doctoral programs after the date a complete application
3-23 is submitted to the coordinating board seeking approval of the
3-24 department, school, or program.
3-25 SECTION 4. To the extent that funds are available for this
3-26 purpose, the board of regents of The University of Texas System
3-27 shall provide the funding required by Section 65.47, Education
4-1 Code, as added by this Act, beginning the fiscal year beginning
4-2 September 1, 1993.
4-3 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-9 passage, and it is so enacted.