By Ratliff S.B. No. 840
75R6667 JSA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to The University of Texas at Tyler.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. The [(a) Except as otherwise
1-7 provided in this section, the] institution shall offer [junior and
1-8 senior] undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of which
1-9 are subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
1-10 Coordinating Board[, Texas College and University System].
1-11 [(b) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-12 approves an engineering degree program at the institution, the
1-13 institution may offer lower division courses relating to that
1-14 program if such courses are offered as part of a partnership
1-15 agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of this
1-16 code.]
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 76.07, Education Code, is amended to read
1-18 as follows:
1-19 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
1-20 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and expand
1-21 partnership agreements in the same manner as authorized by
1-22 Subchapter N, Chapter 51, of this code. With the approval of the
1-23 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the institution may
1-24 enter into a partnership agreement with a private institution of
2-1 higher education located in the same county as any campus of the
2-2 institution, subject to the same provisions as provided by
2-3 Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a partnership agreement between an
2-4 [the] institution covered by that section and a public junior
2-5 college.
2-6 (b) In developing programs and courses subject to a
2-7 partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
2-8 agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
2-9 recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
2-10 programs of institutions of higher education.
2-11 (c) [In deciding whether the institution may offer any lower
2-12 division courses pursuant to Section 76.02 of this code, the
2-13 institution and any other party to a partnership agreement shall
2-14 take into account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
2-15 cost-effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
2-16 students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
2-17 courses will have on the community as a whole.]
2-18 [(d) If the institution offers lower division courses, the
2-19 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
2-20 pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
2-21 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
2-22 lower division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
2-23 addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
2-24 entitled to receive for upper division credit hours that it offers.]
2-25 [(e)] A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled
2-26 in the institution and another public institution of higher
2-27 education under a program offered jointly by the two institutions
3-1 under a partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges
3-2 required of Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided
3-3 by Section 54.064 because the student holds a competitive
3-4 scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of
3-5 Texas residents at each public institution of higher education in
3-6 which the student is simultaneously enrolled under the program.
3-7 (d) [(f)] The institution and other parties to a partnership
3-8 agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus
3-9 service or other transportation service for or among the campuses
3-10 of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may
3-11 charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the
3-12 campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or
3-13 term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
3-14 part of the costs of that service.
3-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-21 passage, and it is so enacted.