BILL ANALYSIS


                                                    C.S.S.B. 1699
                                                      By: Ratliff
                                                        Education
                                                         05-04-95
                                   Committee Report (Substituted)
BACKGROUND

Current law encourages upper-level universities or centers to enter
into partnerships with public community colleges which are located
in the same service region as adopted by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board.

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 1699 allows the University of Texas at Tyler
to solicit and accept donations and to seek and expand partnership
agreements authorized by Chapter 51N, Education Code.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that rulemaking authority is granted
under SECTION 3 (Sec. 76.07(d), Education Code) of this bill.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 76.02, Education Code, as follows:

     Sec.  76.02.  ROLE AND SCOPE.  (a)  Requires the University of
     Texas at Tyler (institution) to offer junior and senior
     undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of which
     are subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
     Coordinating Board (coordinating board), except as otherwise
     provided in this section.
     
     (b) Authorizes the institution to offer lower division
       courses relating to that program if such courses are offered
       as part of a partnership agreement entered into under
       Chapter 51N, if the coordinating board approves an
       engineering degree program at the institution.
     SECTION 2.     Amends Section 76.05, Education Code, as follows:  

     Sec.  76.05.  GIFTS AND GRANTS.  (a)  Created from existing
     text.
     
     (b)  Provides that the board shall solicit and may accept
       donations, gifts, and endowments from private sources to
       provide equipment and other personal property for the
       engineering degree program, if one is established.  Requires
       the board to establish an account for the deposit of money
       accepted under this subsection.  Authorizes money in the
       account to be used only to provide and maintain equipment
       and other personal property used by the engineering degree
       program.  
SECTION 3. Amends Chapter 76, Education Code, by adding Section
76.07, as follows:

     Sec.  76.07.  PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
     INSTITUTIONS.  (a)  Requires the institution to seek to build
     and expand partnership agreements authorized by Chapter 51N.
     
     (b)  Requires the institution and any other party to an
       agreement to take into account the need in the service
       region to recruit minority and lower-income students into
       degree-granting programs of institutions of higher education
       in developing programs and courses subject to a partnership
       agreement.
       
       (c)  Requires the institution and any other party to a
       partnership agreement to take into account, in addition to
       any other relevant factors, the cost effectiveness and other
       impact such courses will have on students likely to enroll
       in the courses as well as any impact such courses will have
       on the community as a whole in deciding whether the
       institution may offer any lower division courses pursuant to
       Section 76.02 of this code.
       
       (d)  Requires the coordinating board to adopt a formula
       pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that
       applies the formula for four-year general academic teaching
       institutions to all lower division semester credit hours
       offered at the institution in addition to any other formula
       funding that the institution might be entitled to receive
       for upper division credit hours that it offers.
       
       (e)  Provides that a nonresident student who is
       simultaneously enrolled in the institution and another
       institution of higher education under a program offered
       jointly by the two institutions under a partnership
       agreement and who pays the fees and charges required of
       Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided by
       Section 54.064 because the student holds a competitive
       scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required
       of Texas residents at each institution in which the student
       is simultaneously enrolled under the program.
       
       (f)  Authorizes the institution and other parties to a
       partnership agreement to contract with any person to provide
       shuttle bus service or other transportation service for or
       among the campuses of the institutions that are parties to
       the agreement and may charge and collect a fee from students
       registered in courses at the campuses of two or more of the
       institutions in the same semester or term in an amount
       determined by the institutions to pay for all or part of the
       costs of that service.
     SECTION 3.     Emergency clause.
           Effective date:  upon passage.