By Kamel H.B. No. 2187 74R7667 JSA-D 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. Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 76.07 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER 1-8 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The board may enter into partnership agreements 1-9 on behalf of the university with any public or private junior 1-10 college, community college, or other two-year vocational, 1-11 technical, or academic postsecondary educational institution for a 1-12 purpose listed in Section 51.661. 1-13 (b) An agreement made under this section is governed by the 1-14 provisions of Subchapter N, Chapter 51, applicable to agreements 1-15 made under that subchapter. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.