1-1 By: Kamel, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 2187
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
1-3 May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to coordination between The University of Texas at Tyler
1-9 and other institutions of higher education.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-12 as follows:
1-13 Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) Except as otherwise
1-14 provided in this section, the <The> institution shall offer junior
1-15 and senior undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of
1-16 which are subject to the authority of the Coordinating Board, Texas
1-17 College and University System.
1-18 (b) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-19 approves an engineering degree program at the institution, the
1-20 institution may offer lower division courses relating to that
1-21 program if such courses are offered as part of a partnership
1-22 agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of this code.
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 76.05, Education Code, is amended to read
1-24 as follows:
1-25 Sec. 76.05. GIFTS AND GRANTS. (a) The board may accept
1-26 donations, gifts, and endowments for the institution. They are to
1-27 be held in trust and administered by the board according to the
1-28 purposes, directions, limitations, and provisions declared in
1-29 writing in the donation, gift, or endowment. The provisions of the
1-30 donation, gift, or endowment shall be followed to the extent that
1-31 they are not inconsistent with the laws of this state or with the
1-32 objective and proper management of the institution.
1-33 (b) The board shall solicit and may accept donations, gifts,
1-34 and endowments from private sources to provide equipment and other
1-35 personal property for the engineering degree program, if one is
1-36 established. The board shall establish an account for the deposit
1-37 of money accepted under this subsection. Money in the account may
1-38 be used only to provide and maintain equipment and other personal
1-39 property used by the engineering degree program.
1-40 SECTION 3. Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-41 Section 76.07 to read as follows:
1-42 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
1-43 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and expand
1-44 partnership agreements authorized by Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of
1-45 this code. With the approval of the Texas Higher Education
1-46 Coordinating Board, the institution may enter into a partnership
1-47 agreement with a private institution of higher education located in
1-48 the same county as any campus of the institution, subject to the
1-49 same provisions as provided by Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a
1-50 partnership agreement between the institution and a public junior
1-51 college.
1-52 (b) In developing programs and courses subject to a
1-53 partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
1-54 agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
1-55 recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
1-56 programs of institutions of higher education.
1-57 (c) In deciding whether the institution may offer any lower
1-58 division courses pursuant to Section 76.02 of this code, the
1-59 institution and any other party to a partnership agreement shall
1-60 take into account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
1-61 cost-effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
1-62 students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
1-63 courses will have on the community as a whole.
1-64 (d) If the institution offers lower division courses, the
1-65 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
1-66 pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
1-67 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
1-68 lower division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
2-1 addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
2-2 entitled to receive for upper division credit hours that it offers.
2-3 (e) A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled in
2-4 the institution and another public institution of higher education
2-5 under a program offered jointly by the two institutions under a
2-6 partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges required of
2-7 Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided by Section
2-8 54.064 because the student holds a competitive scholarship is
2-9 entitled to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents at
2-10 each public institution of higher education in which the student is
2-11 simultaneously enrolled under the program.
2-12 (f) The institution and other parties to a partnership
2-13 agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus
2-14 service or other transportation service for or among the campuses
2-15 of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may
2-16 charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the
2-17 campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or
2-18 term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
2-19 part of the costs of that service.
2-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-26 passage, and it is so enacted.
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