S.B. No. 1184
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to partnership between community/junior colleges and
    1-2  upper-level universities or centers located in the same state
    1-3  uniform service region.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.661, Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.661.  PURPOSE.  The purpose of this subchapter is to
    1-8  encourage partnerships between public community/junior colleges and
    1-9  upper-level universities or centers which are located in the same
   1-10  state uniform service region as adopted by the Texas Higher
   1-11  Education Coordinating Board <share common campuses> in order to
   1-12  improve the continuity, quality, and efficiency of educational
   1-13  programs and services.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 51.662, Education Code, is amended to
   1-15  read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 51.662.  PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS.  With the approval of
   1-17  the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board <coordinating board>,
   1-18  the governing boards of a public community/junior college and an
   1-19  upper-level university or center which are located in the same
   1-20  state uniform service region as adopted by the coordinating board
   1-21  <share a common campus> may enter into a partnership agreement
   1-22  designed to coordinate the management and operations of the
   1-23  institutions.  The agreements shall in no way abrogate the powers
    2-1  and duties of the boards with regard to the governance of their
    2-2  respective institutions.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  Section 51.666, Education Code, is amended to
    2-4  read as follows:
    2-5        Sec. 51.666.  FACILITIES.  A participating upper-level
    2-6  university or center may lease facilities from or to the
    2-7  community/junior college for administrative and instructional
    2-8  purposes.  Community/junior college facilities may not be
    2-9  transferred to the university or center and may not be included in
   2-10  the space inventory of the university or center for formula funding
   2-11  purposes.
   2-12        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.