By Reyna of Dallas H.B. No. 2478 75R5535 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to state funding of certain public institutions of higher 1-3 education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 96.704, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows: 1-7 (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the 1-8 amount of state general revenue appropriated to Lamar University at 1-9 Port Arthur or Lamar University at Orange in a state fiscal year 1-10 may not exceed the amount determined by applying the amounts 1-11 allocated under Section 130.003 per contact hour for that fiscal 1-12 year to the contact hours within the same categories at Lamar 1-13 University at Port Arthur or Lamar University at Orange, as 1-14 applicable. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall 1-15 calculate the maximum amount of general revenue appropriations for 1-16 each of those institutions for each fiscal year at the time the 1-17 coordinating board makes the allocations required by Section 1-18 130.003. The board may increase tuition for resident students at 1-19 Lamar University at Port Arthur or Lamar University at Orange as 1-20 necessary to make up for all or part of the difference between the 1-21 amount of revenue the institution receives under this subsection 1-22 and the amount the institution would receive under the formulas 1-23 adopted under Section 61.059. The coordinating board shall certify 1-24 an estimate of that amount to the board for each fiscal year not 2-1 later than the June 1 immediately preceding the fiscal year. 2-2 (g) Notwithstanding Subsection (f), the maximum amount that 2-3 may be appropriated to an institution covered by Subsection (f) for 2-4 each of the following state fiscal years is the sum of the amount 2-5 provided by Subsection (f) for that year plus an additional amount 2-6 calculated by multiplying the specified percentage for the fiscal 2-7 year by the amount of the difference between the amount provided by 2-8 Subsection (f) and the amount the institution would receive in the 2-9 fiscal year under the formulas adopted under Section 61.059. The 2-10 applicable percentages for purposes of this subsection are: 2-11 (1) 80 percent for the fiscal year ending September 1, 2-12 2000; 2-13 (2) 60 percent for the fiscal year ending September 1, 2-14 2001; 2-15 (3) 40 percent for the fiscal year ending September 1, 2-16 2002; and 2-17 (4) 20 percent for the fiscal year ending September 1, 2-18 2003. 2-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with appropriations to 2-20 Lamar University at Port Arthur or Lamar University at Orange for 2-21 the state fiscal year ending September 1, 2000, and to tuition 2-22 charged at those institutions beginning with the 1999-2000 academic 2-23 year. 2-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.