1-1 By: Duncan (Senate Sponsor - Sims) H.B. No. 2249
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
1-3 May 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the emphasis of water conservation in certain advanced
1-22 research and technology programs at institutions of higher
1-23 education.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 142.002, Education Code, is amended to
1-26 read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 142.002. PURPOSE. The advanced research program is
1-28 established to encourage and provide support for basic research
1-29 conducted by faculty members in astronomy, atmospheric science,
1-30 biological and behavioral sciences, chemistry, computer sciences,
1-31 earth sciences, engineering, information science, mathematics,
1-32 material sciences, oceanography, physics, the reduction of
1-33 industrial, agricultural, and domestic water use, <and> social
1-34 sciences, and related disciplines in eligible institutions.
1-35 SECTION 2. Section 143.003, Education Code, is amended to
1-36 read as follows:
1-37 Sec. 143.003. PRIORITY RESEARCH AREAS. The technology
1-38 program may provide support for faculty members to conduct research
1-39 in areas determined by an advisory panel appointed by the
1-40 coordinating board. Initial research areas shall
1-41 include: agriculture, biotechnology, biomedicine, energy,
1-42 environment, materials science, microelectronics, aerospace, marine
1-43 science, aquaculture, telecommunications, manufacturing science,
1-44 the reduction of industrial, agricultural, and domestic water use,
1-45 <and> recycling, and related disciplines. The advisory panel may
1-46 add or delete priority research areas as the panel considers
1-47 warranted.
1-48 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-53 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-54 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 Austin,
1-57 Texas
1-58 May 20, 1993
1-59 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-60 President of the Senate
1-61 Sir:
1-62 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred H.B.
1-63 No. 2249, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-64 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-65 that it do pass and be printed.
1-66 Ratliff,
1-67 Chairman
1-68 * * * * *
2-1 WITNESSES
2-2 No witnesses appeared on H.B. 2249.