By: McDonald H.B. No. 2059
73R6534 SOS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to The University of Texas at El Paso.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 69.01, Education Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subdivision (3) to read as follows:
1-6 (3) "Border area" means the following
1-7 counties: Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Brewster, Brooks, Cameron,
1-8 Crockett, Culberson, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, El Paso, Frio,
1-9 Hidalgo, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy,
1-10 Kinney, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Maverick, Medina,
1-11 Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves, San Patricio, Starr, Sutton,
1-12 Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Willacy, Zapata, and Zavala.
1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 69, Education Code, is
1-14 amended by adding Section 69.03 to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 69.03. COURSES AND DEGREES. (a) Except as provided by
1-16 Subsection (b) of this section, the board, with the approval of the
1-17 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, may prescribe courses
1-18 leading to customary degrees as are offered at leading American
1-19 educational institutions and may award those degrees.
1-20 (b) At a minimum, the board shall offer:
1-21 (1) baccalaureate programs in child development,
1-22 chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, and textile design;
1-23 (2) master's programs in nurse midwifery, development
1-24 education, public health, physical therapy, nurse practitioner
2-1 studies, nursing administration, library and information science,
2-2 creative writing, Hispanic literature, linguistics, community
2-3 health, international business, art, public policy and ethnic
2-4 studies, and urban planning; and
2-5 (3) doctoral programs in materials science,
2-6 psychology, educational administration, environmental science,
2-7 history, public policy, business administration, community health,
2-8 mechanical engineering, linguistics, multicultural education,
2-9 chemistry, Spanish, nursing, biological sciences, and mathematics.
2-10 SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 69, Education Code, is
2-11 amended by adding Sections 69.23 and 69.24 to read as follows:
2-12 Sec. 69.23. JOINT DEGREE PROGRAMS. The board may offer
2-13 joint degree programs in the areas of educational administration,
2-14 public health, physical therapy, or library and information science
2-15 with another institution under its governance.
2-16 Sec. 69.24. JOINT APPOINTMENTS. (a) The board may make
2-17 joint faculty appointments to a position in the university or a
2-18 component of the university and to a position in another
2-19 institution under its governance.
2-20 (b) The salary of a person receiving a joint appointment
2-21 shall be apportioned between the university or the component of the
2-22 university and the other institution on the basis of services
2-23 rendered.
2-24 SECTION 4. Section 61.055, Education Code, is amended to
2-25 read as follows:
2-26 Sec. 61.055. Initiation of New Departments, Schools, and
2-27 Programs. Except as otherwise provided by law, a <No> new
3-1 department, school, or degree or certificate program approved by
3-2 the board or its predecessor, the Texas Commission on Higher
3-3 Education, may not be initiated by any institution of higher
3-4 education until the board has made a written finding that the
3-5 department, school, or degree or certificate program is adequately
3-6 financed by legislative appropriation, by funds allocated by the
3-7 board, or by funds from other sources.
3-8 SECTION 5. Not later than the beginning of the fall semester
3-9 in 1995, the board of regents of The University of Texas System
3-10 shall begin offering the courses and degrees required by Section
3-11 69.03, Education Code, as added by this Act.
3-12 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-18 passage, and it is so enacted.