1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1699
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed May 2, 1995; May 2, 1995, read first
1-3 time and referred to Committee on Education; May 3, 1995, reported
1-4 adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1699 By: Ratliff
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to coordination between The University of Texas at Tyler
1-10 and other institutions of higher education.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-13 as follows:
1-14 Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) Except as otherwise
1-15 provided in this section, the <The> institution shall offer junior
1-16 and senior undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of
1-17 which are subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
1-18 Coordinating Board<, Texas College and University System>.
1-19 (b) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-20 approves an engineering degree program at the institution, the
1-21 institution may offer lower-division courses relating to that
1-22 program if those courses are offered as part of a partnership
1-23 agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 76.05, Education Code, is amended to read
1-25 as follows:
1-26 Sec. 76.05. GIFTS AND GRANTS. (a) The board may accept
1-27 donations, gifts, and endowments for the institution. They are to
1-28 be held in trust and administered by the board according to the
1-29 purposes, directions, limitations, and provisions declared in
1-30 writing in the donation, gift, or endowment. The provisions of the
1-31 donation, gift, or endowment shall be followed to the extent that
1-32 they are not inconsistent with the laws of this state or with the
1-33 objective and proper management of the institution.
1-34 (b) The board shall solicit and may accept donations, gifts,
1-35 and endowments from private sources to provide equipment and other
1-36 personal property for the engineering degree program, if one is
1-37 established. The board shall establish an account for the deposit
1-38 of money accepted under this subsection. Money in the account may
1-39 be used only to provide and maintain equipment and other personal
1-40 property used by the engineering degree program.
1-41 SECTION 3. Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-42 Section 76.07 to read as follows:
1-43 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
1-44 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and expand
1-45 partnership agreements authorized by Subchapter N, Chapter 51.
1-46 (b) In developing programs and courses subject to a
1-47 partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
1-48 agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
1-49 recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
1-50 programs of institutions of higher education.
1-51 (c) In deciding whether the institution may offer any
1-52 lower-division courses pursuant to Section 76.02, the institution
1-53 and any other party to a partnership agreement shall take into
1-54 account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
1-55 cost-effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
1-56 students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
1-57 courses will have on the community as a whole.
1-58 (d) If the institution offers lower-division courses, the
1-59 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
1-60 pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
1-61 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
1-62 lower-division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
1-63 addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
1-64 entitled to receive for upper-division credit hours that it offers.
1-65 (e) A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled in
1-66 the institution and another institution of higher education under a
1-67 program offered jointly by the two institutions under a partnership
1-68 agreement and who pays the fees and charges required of Texas
2-1 residents at one of the institutions as provided by Section 54.064
2-2 because the student holds a competitive scholarship is entitled to
2-3 pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents at each
2-4 institution in which the student is simultaneously enrolled under
2-5 the program.
2-6 (f) The institution and other parties to a partnership
2-7 agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus
2-8 service or other transportation service for or among the campuses
2-9 of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may
2-10 charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the
2-11 campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or
2-12 term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
2-13 part of the costs of that service.
2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.
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