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By: Lucio S.B. No. 274
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to lower division curricula at The University of Texas at
1-2 Brownsville.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 78.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (a) The board shall establish an [upper level] educational
1-7 institution in the City of Brownsville, to be known as The
1-8 University of Texas at Brownsville.
1-9 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c) and (d) of this
1-10 section, the university shall teach only junior-, senior-, and
1-11 graduate-level courses.
1-12 (c) The university may enter into a partnership agreement
1-13 with Texas Southmost College to teach a lower-division,
1-14 occupational, or technical course that is not offered at the
1-15 university.
1-16 (d) The university shall offer basic lower-division
1-17 curricula to support Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science
1-18 degrees and may offer additional lower-division academic courses in
1-19 accordance with the partnership agreement.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 78.03, Education Code, is amended to read
1-21 as follows:
1-22 (a) The board may authorize the university to offer any
1-23 upper-level or graduate course which is authorized by the Texas
2-1 Higher Education Coordinating Board and may authorize the
2-2 university to offer lower division courses in accordance with
2-3 Subsection 78.02 (b) and 78.02(c).
2-4 (b) The board shall offer a broad array of courses at the
2-5 university.
2-6 (c) The board shall award degrees in the name of The
2-7 University of Texas at Brownsville.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.