1-1 By: Truan, Montford S.B. No. 239
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 11, 1993; February 15, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 March 3, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; March 3, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Montford x
1-10 Turner x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Ellis x
1-15 Haley x
1-16 Moncrief x
1-17 Parker x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Sims x
1-20 Truan x
1-21 Zaffirini x
1-22 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 239 By: Montford
1-23 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-24 AN ACT
1-25 relating to funding for certain public institutions of higher
1-26 education.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
1-29 amended by adding Section 61.0592 to read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 61.0592. FUNDING FOR CERTAIN FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.
1-31 (a) This section applies to Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
1-32 and The University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
1-33 (b) Notwithstanding Section 61.059 of this code, a formula
1-34 adopted by the board under that section that provides a
1-35 differential rate for each semester credit hour between four-year
1-36 general academic teaching institutions and upper-level institutions
1-37 shall be modified and applied as provided by this section to a
1-38 university to which this section applies.
1-39 (c) In addition to other funding that a university to which
1-40 this section applies is entitled to receive, the university is
1-41 entitled to receive additional funds in accordance with this
1-42 section.
1-43 (d) The formula for four-year general academic teaching
1-44 institutions shall be applied to all lower-division semester credit
1-45 hours at a university to which this section applies.
1-46 (e) For the first two state fiscal years that begin after a
1-47 university to which this section applies first admits
1-48 lower-division students or offers lower-division courses, the
1-49 formula for upper-level general academic teaching institutions
1-50 shall be applied to upper-division semester credit hours at the
1-51 university.
1-52 (f) Beginning with the third state fiscal year that begins
1-53 after a university to which this section applies first admits
1-54 lower-division students or offers lower-division courses, the
1-55 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions shall
1-56 be applied to upper-division semester credit hours at the
1-57 university, except that the board shall modify the formula to
1-58 provide the university additional funding equal to a percent of the
1-59 difference between the amount derived from the application of the
1-60 four-year formula to the university's upper-division semester
1-61 credit hours and the amount derived from the application of the
1-62 upper-level formula to those semester credit hours. The percent to
1-63 be applied to that difference is 87.5 percent for the first fiscal
1-64 year to which this subsection applies and is reduced by 12.5
1-65 percentage points for each subsequent fiscal year.
1-66 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-67 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-68 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-5 * * * * *
2-6 Austin,
2-7 Texas
2-8 March 3, 1993
2-9 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-10 President of the Senate
2-11 Sir:
2-12 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred S.B. No. 239,
2-13 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-14 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-15 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-16 pass and be printed.
2-17 Montford,
2-18 Chairman
2-19 * * * * *
2-20 WITNESSES
2-21 FOR AGAINST ON
2-22 ___________________________________________________________________
2-23 Name: Robert R. Furgason x
2-24 Representing: Corpus Christi State Univ.
2-25 City: Corpus Christi
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2-27 Name: Herbert Richardson, Chancellor x
2-28 Representing: Tx A&M University System
2-29 City: College Station
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