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.