1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 274
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 1997; January 29, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 April 1, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 1, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 274 By: Haywood
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the operation of The University of Texas at
1-11 Brownsville.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 78.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-14 as follows:
1-15 Sec. 78.02. ESTABLISHMENT; SCOPE. (a) The board shall
1-16 establish an [upper-level educational] institution of higher
1-17 education in the City of Brownsville, to be known as The University
1-18 of Texas at Brownsville.
1-19 (b) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (c) and
1-20 (d) [of this section], the university shall teach only junior-,
1-21 senior-, and graduate-level courses.
1-22 (c) The university may enter into a partnership agreement
1-23 with the [Texas] Southmost Union Junior College District in the
1-24 manner authorized by Subchapter N, Chapter 51, to offer [teach] a
1-25 lower-division, occupational, or technical course that is not
1-26 offered at the university.
1-27 (d) The university shall offer basic lower-division courses
1-28 to support bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degree
1-29 programs. If the Southmost Union Junior College District provides
1-30 regular operational support for Texas Southmost College and the
1-31 partnership with the university authorized by Subsection (c), the
1-32 university may offer additional lower-division courses.
1-33 SECTION 2. Section 78.04, Education Code, is amended to read
1-34 as follows:
1-35 Sec. 78.04. FACILITIES. The board shall make provisions for
1-36 adequate physical facilities for use by the university, on land
1-37 committed by the board of trustees of the Southmost Union Junior
1-38 College District on the district's Texas Southmost College campus,
1-39 subject to the normal requirements of the board and the Texas
1-40 Higher Education Coordinating Board.
1-41 SECTION 3. Chapter 78, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-42 Sections 78.07 and 78.08 to read as follows:
1-43 Sec. 78.07. LOWER-DIVISION ADMISSIONS. The board of regents
1-44 of The University of Texas System, with the concurrence of the
1-45 board of trustees of the Southmost Union Junior College District,
1-46 shall determine the number of entering freshmen who may be enrolled
1-47 at the university each academic year. In an academic year
1-48 preceding the 2005-2006 academic year, the number of entering
1-49 lower-division students enrolled may not exceed 900.
1-50 Sec. 78.08. FORMULA FUNDING. Notwithstanding Section
1-51 61.059, a formula adopted by the Texas Higher Education
1-52 Coordinating Board under that section shall provide that the
1-53 formula for upper-level general academic teaching institutions
1-54 shall be applied to upper-division semester credit hours at the
1-55 university for each state fiscal year preceding the state fiscal
1-56 year ending August 31, 2006.
1-57 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-58 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-59 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-60 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-61 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-62 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-63 passage, and it is so enacted.