By Kamel, Telford, Yost, Ramsay, Sadler               H.B. No. 2187
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2187:
          By Harris                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2187
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to coordination between The University of Texas at Tyler
    1-3  and other institutions of higher education.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the <The>
    1-8  institution shall offer junior and senior undergraduate programs
    1-9  and graduate programs, both of which are subject to the authority
   1-10  of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System.
   1-11        (b)  If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
   1-12  approves an engineering degree program at the institution, the
   1-13  institution may offer lower division courses relating to that
   1-14  program if such courses are offered as part of a partnership
   1-15  agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of this code.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding
   1-17  Section 76.07 to read as follows:
   1-18        Sec. 76.07.  PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
   1-19  INSTITUTIONS.  (a)  The institution shall seek to build and expand
   1-20  partnership agreements authorized by Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of
   1-21  this code.
   1-22        (b)  In developing programs and courses subject to a
   1-23  partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
   1-24  agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
    2-1  recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
    2-2  programs of institutions of higher education.
    2-3        (c)  In deciding whether the institution may offer any lower
    2-4  division courses pursuant to Section 76.02 of this code, the
    2-5  institution and any other party to a partnership agreement shall
    2-6  take into account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
    2-7  cost effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
    2-8  students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
    2-9  courses will have on the community as a whole.
   2-10        (d)  If the institution offers lower division courses, the
   2-11  Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
   2-12  pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
   2-13  formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
   2-14  lower division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
   2-15  addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
   2-16  entitled to receive for upper division credit hours that it offers.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-23  passage, and it is so enacted.