1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to The University of Texas at Tyler.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) The [Except as otherwise
1-7 provided in this section, the] institution shall offer [junior and
1-8 senior] undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of which
1-9 are subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
1-10 Coordinating Board[, Texas College and University System].
1-11 (b) The institution may not offer a lower division course
1-12 off the campus of the institution until the fall semester of 2001.
1-13 (c) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-14 approves an engineering degree program at the institution, the
1-15 institution may offer lower division courses relating to that
1-16 program [if such courses are offered as part of a partnership
1-17 agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of this
1-18 code]. The enrollment limits provided by Section 76.026 do not
1-19 apply to that program.
1-20 SECTION 2. Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-21 Sections 76.025 and 76.026 to read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 76.025. UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS. (a) The institution
1-23 may not adopt or use an open enrollment policy.
1-24 (b) The board shall adopt admission standards for the
2-1 institution for first-time freshman students that are at least as
2-2 stringent as the 1997 fall semester admission standards for
2-3 first-time freshman students at The University of Texas at
2-4 Arlington.
2-5 (c) The board must comply with Subsection (b) not later than
2-6 January 1, 2000. This subsection expires January 1, 2001.
2-7 Sec. 76.026. ENROLLMENT LIMITS. (a) The maximum number of
2-8 full-time equivalent freshman and sophomore students who may be
2-9 enrolled at The University of Texas at Tyler is:
2-10 (1) 50 for the 1998 summer session and 1998-1999
2-11 academic year;
2-12 (2) 100 for the 1999 summer session and 1999-2000
2-13 academic year;
2-14 (3) 150 for the 2000 summer session and 2000-2001
2-15 academic year; and
2-16 (4) 200 for the 2001 summer session and 2001-2002
2-17 academic year.
2-18 (b) The institution may not admit a student as a freshman
2-19 before the 1998 summer session.
2-20 (c) This section expires January 1, 2003.
2-21 SECTION 3. Section 76.07, Education Code, is amended to read
2-22 as follows:
2-23 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
2-24 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and expand
2-25 partnership agreements in the same manner as authorized by
2-26 Subchapter N, Chapter 51 [of this code]. With the approval of the
2-27 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the institution may
3-1 enter into a partnership agreement with a private institution of
3-2 higher education located in the same county as any campus of the
3-3 institution, subject to the same provisions as provided by
3-4 Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a partnership agreement between an
3-5 [the] institution covered by that section and a public junior
3-6 college.
3-7 (b) In developing programs and courses subject to a
3-8 partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
3-9 agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
3-10 recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
3-11 programs of institutions of higher education.
3-12 (c) [In deciding whether the institution may offer any lower
3-13 division courses pursuant to Section 76.02 of this code, the
3-14 institution and any other party to a partnership agreement shall
3-15 take into account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
3-16 cost-effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
3-17 students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
3-18 courses will have on the community as a whole.]
3-19 [(d) If the institution offers lower division courses, the
3-20 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
3-21 pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
3-22 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
3-23 lower division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
3-24 addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
3-25 entitled to receive for upper division credit hours that it offers.]
3-26 [(e)] A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled
3-27 in the institution and another public institution of higher
4-1 education under a program offered jointly by the two institutions
4-2 under a partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges
4-3 required of Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided
4-4 by Section 54.064 because the student holds a competitive
4-5 scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of
4-6 Texas residents at each public institution of higher education in
4-7 which the student is simultaneously enrolled under the program.
4-8 (d) [(f)] The institution and other parties to a partnership
4-9 agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus
4-10 service or other transportation service for or among the campuses
4-11 of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may
4-12 charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the
4-13 campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or
4-14 term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
4-15 part of the costs of that service.
4-16 SECTION 4. Not later than December 31, 1998, the Texas
4-17 Higher Education Coordinating Board shall prepare an impact
4-18 statement examining the initial implementation of this Act and
4-19 shall deliver a copy of the statement to the board of regents of
4-20 The University of Texas System, to the board of trustees of Tyler
4-21 Junior College District, and to the chair of the standing committee
4-22 of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over
4-23 higher education.
4-24 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1795 was passed by the House on May
2, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1795 was passed by the Senate on May
13, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 1.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor