By: Truan S.B. No. 239 73R3903 SOS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to funding for certain public institutions of higher 1-3 education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 61.0592 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 61.0592. FUNDING FOR CERTAIN FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS. 1-8 (a) This section applies to Corpus Christi State University and 1-9 The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. 1-10 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) of this section, in 1-11 addition to other funding that a university to which this section 1-12 applies is entitled to receive, the university is entitled to 1-13 receive the same funding for junior and senior full-time equivalent 1-14 students as that received by general academic teaching institutions 1-15 that enroll only junior and senior students. The board shall 1-16 reflect the university's entitlement to funds under this subsection 1-17 in devising the formula under Section 61.059 of this code. 1-18 (c) The board shall certify to the legislature when the 1-19 ratio of the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at a 1-20 university to which this section applies in junior or senior 1-21 courses to the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at 1-22 the university in freshman or sophomore courses is the same as the 1-23 ratio of the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at 1-24 other general academic teaching institutions in junior or senior 2-1 courses to the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at 2-2 those institutions in freshman or sophomore courses. A university 2-3 to which this section applies is not entitled to the funding under 2-4 Subsection (b) of this section after the certification is made 2-5 under this subsection. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.