By Black H.B. No. 2563
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorizing the transfer of governance of Central Texas
1-3 University.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 113, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 113.111 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 113.111. TRANSFER OF GOVERNANCE. (a) The
1-8 organization, control, and management of the university may be
1-9 transferred to the board of regents of any other public institution
1-10 of higher education or of any public university system in this
1-11 state if both boards of regents agree on the transfer. Approval,
1-12 endorsement, or any other form of ratification by the Texas Higher
1-13 Education Coordinating Board is required for the transfer to take
1-14 effect.
1-15 (b) If a transfer is agreed to under Subsection (a) of this
1-16 section, the governance, operation, management, and control of the
1-17 university, along with all right, title, and interest in the land,
1-18 buildings, facilities, improvements, equipment, supplies, and
1-19 property comprising the university shall be transferred from the
1-20 board of regents appointed under Section 113.11 of this code to the
1-21 receiving board of regents. The board of regents established under
1-22 Section 113.11 is abolished on the effective date of the transfer.
1-23 SECTION 2. TRANSITION PROVISIONS. If the organization,
2-1 control, and management of Central Texas University are transferred
2-2 to the board of regents of another institution of higher education
2-3 or of a public university system in this state under Section
2-4 113.111, Education Code, as added by this Act, the provisions of
2-5 Sections 3 through 9 of this Act apply to the transfer.
2-6 SECTION 3. TRANSFER. The governance, operation, management,
2-7 and control of Central Texas University, along with all right,
2-8 title, and interest in the land, buildings, facilities,
2-9 improvements, equipment, supplies, and property comprising that
2-10 institution, are transferred from the board of regents of Central
2-11 Texas University to the receiving board of regents.
2-12 SECTION 4. POWERS AND DUTIES. The board of regents of the
2-13 receiving university system or institution of higher education
2-14 shall undertake to govern, operate, manage, and control Central
2-15 Texas University and all land, buildings, facilities, improvements,
2-16 equipment, supplies, and property comprising that institution under
2-17 the powers, duties, and responsibilities conferred by law on the
2-18 receiving board of regents for the governance, operation,
2-19 management, and control of the institution or of component
2-20 institutions comprising the system under its authority.
2-21 SECTION 5. APPROPRIATIONS. Appropriations made for the use
2-22 and benefit of Central Texas University under the governance of the
2-23 board of regents of Central Texas University are transferred to the
2-24 receiving board of regents for the use and benefit of Central Texas
2-25 University. Other funds held for the use and benefit of Central
3-1 Texas University shall continue to be available for the use and
3-2 benefit of that institution notwithstanding the change in
3-3 governance made by the transfer.
3-4 SECTION 6. CONTRACTS AND WRITTEN OBLIGATIONS. Contracts and
3-5 written obligations of every kind and character, including bonds,
3-6 entered into by the board of regents of Central Texas University
3-7 for and on behalf of Central Texas University are ratified,
3-8 confirmed, and validated. In those contracts and written
3-9 obligations, including bonds, the receiving board of regents is
3-10 substituted for and stands and acts in the place of the board of
3-11 regents of Central Texas University.
3-12 SECTION 7. EMPLOYEE INSURANCE AND OTHER BENEFITS. Any
3-13 contract or other agreement with a provider of insurance or
3-14 employee benefits that provides coverage for employees of Central
3-15 Texas University is not void nor does it terminate on the effective
3-16 date of the transfer. Any such contract or agreement remains in
3-17 full force and effect until its date of expiration unless it
3-18 terminates before the expiration date in accordance with its terms.
3-19 All persons for whom the insurance is provided on the effective
3-20 date of the transfer are covered by the insurance in accordance
3-21 with the terms of those agreements until the respective dates of
3-22 termination or expiration of those agreements. The persons covered
3-23 by the agreements who are employees of the receiving university
3-24 system or institution on the respective termination or expiration
3-25 dates of those agreements shall be included in any similar
4-1 agreements that relate to other employees of the receiving
4-2 university system or institution and are in effect on the
4-3 termination or expiration dates.
4-4 SECTION 8. EFFECT OF TRANSFER ON STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES.
4-5 The transfer of governance, operation, management, and control of
4-6 Central Texas University from the board of regents of Central Texas
4-7 University to the receiving board of regents does not affect:
4-8 (1) the credit hours earned by students at those
4-9 institutions before the effective date of the transfer; or
4-10 (2) the employment status on the effective date of the
4-11 transfer of the administrative, faculty, or support staff of
4-12 Central Texas University.
4-13 SECTION 9. REPEALER. Sections 113.12 through 113.15,
4-14 Education Code, are repealed.
4-15 SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on the
4-16 date Chapter 113, Education Code, takes effect.
4-17 SECTION 11. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
4-18 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-23 passage, and it is so enacted.