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