By:  Rangel                                           H.B. No. 2186
       73R6658 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to Texas A&M University--Kingsville.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 87.302, Education Code, is amended by
    1-5  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (e) of this section, a
    1-8  <A> new department, school, or degree program may not be instituted
    1-9  without the prior approval of the Texas Higher Education
   1-10  Coordinating Board.
   1-11        (e)  At a minimum, the board shall offer:
   1-12              (1)  baccalaureate programs in industrial engineering,
   1-13  anthropology, gerontology, restaurant or food service management,
   1-14  international business, agribusiness, horticulture, fashion
   1-15  merchandising, fashion design, and criminal justice;
   1-16              (2)  master's programs in industrial engineering,
   1-17  environmental engineering, chemical engineering, home economics,
   1-18  international business, social work, communication disorders, fine
   1-19  arts, English as a second language, political science, history,
   1-20  mass communications, botany, and regional planning; and
   1-21              (3)  doctoral programs in education leadership,
   1-22  engineering, wildlife, biology, environmental engineering,
   1-23  curriculum and instruction in education, and adult and vocational
   1-24  education.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Section 61.055, Education Code, is amended to
    2-2  read as follows:
    2-3        Sec. 61.055.  Initiation of New Departments, Schools, and
    2-4  Programs.  Except as otherwise provided by law, a <No> new
    2-5  department, school, or degree or certificate program approved by
    2-6  the board or its predecessor, the Texas Commission on Higher
    2-7  Education, may not be initiated by any institution of higher
    2-8  education until the board has made a written finding that the
    2-9  department, school, or degree or certificate program is adequately
   2-10  financed by legislative appropriation, by funds allocated by the
   2-11  board, or by funds from other sources.
   2-12        SECTION 3.  Not later than the beginning of the fall semester
   2-13  in 1995, the board of regents of The Texas A&M University System
   2-14  shall begin offering the courses and degrees required by Section
   2-15  87.302(e), Education Code, as added by this Act.
   2-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.