By: Truan S.B. No. 1287
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to Texas A&M University--Kingsville.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 87.302, Education Code, is amended by
1-4 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (e) of this section, a
1-7 <A> new department, school, or degree program may not be instituted
1-8 without the prior approval of the Texas Higher Education
1-9 Coordinating Board.
1-10 (e) At a minimum, the board shall offer:
1-11 (1) baccalaureate programs in anthropology,
1-12 gerontology, restaurant or food service management, international
1-13 business, agribusiness, horticulture, fashion merchandising,
1-14 fashion design, and criminal justice;
1-15 (2) master's programs in social work, communication
1-16 disorders, fine arts, English as a second language, political
1-17 science, history, mass communications, botany, and regional
1-18 planning; and
1-19 (3) doctoral programs in engineering, wildlife,
1-20 biology, environmental engineering, curriculum and instruction in
1-21 education, and adult and vocational education.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 61.055, Education Code, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
2-1 Sec. 61.055. Initiation of New Departments, Schools, and
2-2 Programs. Except as otherwise provided by law, a <No> new
2-3 department, school, or degree or certificate program approved by
2-4 the board or its predecessor, the Texas Commission on Higher
2-5 Education, may not be initiated by any institution of higher
2-6 education until the board has made a written finding that the
2-7 department, school, or degree or certificate program is adequately
2-8 financed by legislative appropriation, by funds allocated by the
2-9 board, or by funds from other sources.
2-10 SECTION 3. Not later than the beginning of the fall semester
2-11 in 1995, the board of regents of the Texas A&M University System
2-12 shall begin offering the courses and degrees required by Section
2-13 87.302(e), Education Code, as added by this Act.
2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.