By Price H.B. No. 1803
74R5509 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to designating Lamar University Institute of Technology as
1-3 a separate degree-granting institution.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 108.36, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 108.36. EDUCATIONAL CENTERS. (a) The Board shall
1-8 establish co-educational lower-division institutions of higher
1-9 education of the Lamar University System as separate
1-10 degree-granting institutions in the counties of Jefferson and
1-11 Orange, to be known as Lamar University at Port Arthur and Lamar
1-12 University at Orange, to teach only freshman and sophomore level
1-13 courses.
1-14 (b) The board shall establish a co-educational
1-15 lower-division institution of higher education of the Lamar
1-16 University System as a separate degree-granting institution in
1-17 Jefferson County, to be known as Lamar University Institute of
1-18 Technology. The primary purpose of the institute is to teach
1-19 technical and vocational courses and related supporting courses.
1-20 (c) The board may acquire, construct, or otherwise make
1-21 provision for adequate physical facilities for use by the
1-22 institutions established under this section <Lamar University at
1-23 Port Arthur and Lamar University at Orange> and may accept and
1-24 administer, on terms and conditions satisfactory to the board,
2-1 grants or gifts of money or property that <which> are tendered by
2-2 any person <reason> for the use and benefit of the campuses subject
2-3 to the normal requirements of the board and the Texas Higher
2-4 Education Coordinating Board.
2-5 (d) <(c)> The board with approval of the Texas Higher
2-6 Education Coordinating Board, may prescribe courses leading to
2-7 customary degrees, and make other rules and regulations for the
2-8 operation, control, and management of the institutions established
2-9 under this section <Lamar University at Port Arthur and Lamar
2-10 University at Orange> as necessary for each campus to be a
2-11 first-class institution for freshman and sophomore students.
2-12 (e) <(d)> Nothing in this section shall be construed to
2-13 limit the powers of the board of regents of the Lamar University
2-14 System as conferred by law.
2-15 (f) <(e)> For each institution established under this
2-16 section <Lamar University at Port Arthur and Lamar University at
2-17 Orange>, the board may expend funds allocated to the Lamar
2-18 University System under Chapter 62 of this code for any of the
2-19 purposes listed in Article VII, Section 17, of the Texas
2-20 Constitution, in the same manner and under the same circumstances
2-21 as expenditures for those purposes for other separate
2-22 degree-granting institutions.
2-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.