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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.