By: Rodriguez H.B. No. 2056
73R6528 SOS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to The University of Texas at San Antonio.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 71.03, Education Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 71.03. Courses and Degrees. (a) The board may
1-7 prescribe courses leading to such customary degrees as are offered
1-8 at leading American universities and may award those degrees. It
1-9 is the intent of the legislature that those degrees include
1-10 bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees and their equivalents,
1-11 and that there be established a standard four-year undergraduate
1-12 program.
1-13 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section,
1-14 a<; but no> department, school, or degree program may not be
1-15 instituted except with the prior approval of the Texas Higher
1-16 Education Coordinating Board<, Texas College and University
1-17 System>.
1-18 (c) At a minimum, the board shall offer:
1-19 (1) baccalaureate programs in hospitality management;
1-20 radio, television, and film; international relations;
1-21 communications; graphic design; public administration; art history;
1-22 philosophy; and Mexican American studies;
1-23 (2) master's programs in technology management,
1-24 environmental geology, psychology, art history, sociology,
2-1 political science, hospitality management, earth science education,
2-2 urban studies, physics, regional planning, and criminal justice;
2-3 and
2-4 (3) doctoral programs in computer science, education
2-5 leadership, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil
2-6 engineering, and biology.
2-7 (d) The board shall cooperate with the board of regents of
2-8 the Texas State University System to offer educational
2-9 administration programs at the Alpine campus or the Uvalde Center
2-10 of Sul Ross State University.
2-11 SECTION 2. Section 61.003(5), Education Code, is amended to
2-12 read as follows:
2-13 (5) "Medical and dental unit" means The University of
2-14 Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; The University of Texas
2-15 Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; The University of Texas
2-16 Health Science Center at San Antonio, including The University of
2-17 Texas Medical School at San Antonio; The University of Texas Dental
2-18 Branch at Houston; The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
2-19 Center; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical
2-20 Sciences at Houston; The University of Texas Dental School at San
2-21 Antonio; The University of Texas Medical School at Houston; the
2-22 nursing institutions of The University of Texas System; and The
2-23 University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston; and such
2-24 other medical or dental schools as may be established by statute or
2-25 as provided in this chapter.
2-26 SECTION 3. Section 61.055, Education Code, is amended to
2-27 read as follows:
3-1 Sec. 61.055. Initiation of New Departments, Schools, and
3-2 Programs. Except as otherwise provided by law, a <No> new
3-3 department, school, or degree or certificate program approved by
3-4 the board or its predecessor, the Texas Commission on Higher
3-5 Education, may not be initiated by any institution of higher
3-6 education until the board has made a written finding that the
3-7 department, school, or degree or certificate program is adequately
3-8 financed by legislative appropriation, by funds allocated by the
3-9 board, or by funds from other sources.
3-10 SECTION 4. Not later than the beginning of the fall semester
3-11 in 1995, the board of regents of The University of Texas System
3-12 shall begin offering the courses and degrees required by Section
3-13 71.03, Education Code, as amended by this Act.
3-14 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-20 passage, and it is so enacted.