1-1 By: Kamel, Glaze (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 1795
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;
1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 May 9, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; May 9, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to The University of Texas at Tyler.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-11 as follows:
1-12 Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) The [Except as otherwise
1-13 provided in this section, the] institution shall offer [junior and
1-14 senior] undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of which
1-15 are subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
1-16 Coordinating Board[, Texas College and University System].
1-17 (b) The institution may not offer a lower division course
1-18 off the campus of the institution until the fall semester of 2001.
1-19 (c) 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 such courses are offered as part of a partnership
1-23 agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of this
1-24 code]. The enrollment limits provided by Section 76.026 do not
1-25 apply to that program.
1-26 SECTION 2. Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-27 Sections 76.025 and 76.026 to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 76.025. UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS. (a) The institution
1-29 may not adopt or use an open enrollment policy.
1-30 (b) The board shall adopt admission standards for the
1-31 institution for first-time freshman students that are at least as
1-32 stringent as the 1997 fall semester admission standards for
1-33 first-time freshman students at The University of Texas at
1-34 Arlington.
1-35 (c) The board must comply with Subsection (b) not later than
1-36 January 1, 2000. This subsection expires January 1, 2001.
1-37 Sec. 76.026. ENROLLMENT LIMITS. (a) The maximum number of
1-38 full-time equivalent freshman and sophomore students who may be
1-39 enrolled at The University of Texas at Tyler is:
1-40 (1) 50 for the 1998 summer session and 1998-1999
1-41 academic year;
1-42 (2) 100 for the 1999 summer session and 1999-2000
1-43 academic year;
1-44 (3) 150 for the 2000 summer session and 2000-2001
1-45 academic year; and
1-46 (4) 200 for the 2001 summer session and 2001-2002
1-47 academic year.
1-48 (b) The institution may not admit a student as a freshman
1-49 before the 1998 summer session.
1-50 (c) This section expires January 1, 2003.
1-51 SECTION 3. Section 76.07, Education Code, is amended to read
1-52 as follows:
1-53 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
1-54 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and expand
1-55 partnership agreements in the same manner as authorized by
1-56 Subchapter N, Chapter 51 [of this code]. With the approval of the
1-57 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the institution may
1-58 enter into a partnership agreement with a private institution of
1-59 higher education located in the same county as any campus of the
1-60 institution, subject to the same provisions as provided by
1-61 Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a partnership agreement between an
1-62 [the] institution covered by that section and a public junior
1-63 college.
1-64 (b) In developing programs and courses subject to a
2-1 partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
2-2 agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
2-3 recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
2-4 programs of institutions of higher education.
2-5 (c) [In deciding whether the institution may offer any lower
2-6 division courses pursuant to Section 76.02 of this code, the
2-7 institution and any other party to a partnership agreement shall
2-8 take into account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
2-9 cost-effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
2-10 students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
2-11 courses will have on the community as a whole.]
2-12 [(d) If the institution offers lower division courses, the
2-13 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
2-14 pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
2-15 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
2-16 lower division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
2-17 addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
2-18 entitled to receive for upper division credit hours that it offers.]
2-19 [(e)] A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled
2-20 in the institution and another public institution of higher
2-21 education under a program offered jointly by the two institutions
2-22 under a partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges
2-23 required of Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided
2-24 by Section 54.064 because the student holds a competitive
2-25 scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of
2-26 Texas residents at each public institution of higher education in
2-27 which the student is simultaneously enrolled under the program.
2-28 (d) [(f)] The institution and other parties to a partnership
2-29 agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus
2-30 service or other transportation service for or among the campuses
2-31 of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may
2-32 charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the
2-33 campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or
2-34 term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
2-35 part of the costs of that service.
2-36 SECTION 4. Not later than December 31, 1998, the Texas
2-37 Higher Education Coordinating Board shall prepare an impact
2-38 statement examining the initial implementation of this Act and
2-39 shall deliver a copy of the statement to the board of regents of
2-40 The University of Texas System, to the board of trustees of Tyler
2-41 Junior College District, and to the chair of the standing committee
2-42 of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over
2-43 higher education.
2-44 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-50 passage, and it is so enacted.
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