SLC H.B. 2564 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS


LAND & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
H.B. 2564
By: Hinojosa
4-16-97
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND 

The University of Texas Pan American campus is bordered by neighborhoods
and empty tracts of land.  The Board of Regents for The University of
Texas System has developed a long-term campus expansion plan which
provides for the University to acquire certain plots of land.  Under the
current law, the University System must first request permission from the
Board of Higher Education before making any purchase offers for land.
Because the University is delayed in making and offering, the land is
oftentimes sold to another or subject to a significant price increase.   

PURPOSE

HB 2564 will allow the Board of Regents for The University of Texas System
to acquire certain properties for campus expansion. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or
institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Allows the Board of Regents for The University of Texas System
are authorized to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, or otherwise, for
campus expansion and other University purposes, all or any part of the
land as described to be conveyed. 

SECTION 2. Emergency clause.