1-1 By: Ratliff, Cain S.B. No. 840
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 1997; March 4, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 18, 1997,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 840 By: Ratliff
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to The University of Texas at Tyler.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 76.02, Education Code, is amended to read
1-12 as follows:
1-13 Sec. 76.02. ROLE AND SCOPE. (a) The [Except as otherwise
1-14 provided in this section, the] institution shall offer [junior and
1-15 senior] undergraduate programs and graduate programs, both of which
1-16 are subject to the authority of the Texas Higher Education
1-17 Coordinating Board[, Texas College and University System].
1-18 (b) The institution may not offer a lower division course
1-19 off the campus of the institution until the fall semester of 2001.
1-20 (c) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
1-21 approves an engineering degree program at the institution, the
1-22 institution may offer lower division courses relating to that
1-23 program [if such courses are offered as part of a partnership
1-24 agreement entered into under Subchapter N, Chapter 51 of this
1-25 code]. The enrollment limits provided by Section 76.026 do not
1-26 apply to that program.
1-27 SECTION 2. Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding
1-28 Sections 76.025 and 76.026 to read as follows:
1-29 Sec. 76.025. UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS. (a) The institution
1-30 may not adopt or use an open enrollment policy.
1-31 (b) The board shall adopt admission standards for the
1-32 institution for first-time freshman students that are at least as
1-33 stringent as the 1997 fall semester admission standards for
1-34 first-time freshman students at The University of Texas at
1-35 Arlington.
1-36 (c) The board must comply with Subsection (b) not later than
1-37 January 1, 2000. This subsection expires January 1, 2001.
1-38 Sec. 76.026. ENROLLMENT LIMITS. (a) The maximum number of
1-39 full-time equivalent freshman and sophomore students who may be
1-40 enrolled at The University of Texas at Tyler is:
1-41 (1) 50 for the 1998 summer session and 1998-1999
1-42 academic year;
1-43 (2) 100 for the 1999 summer session and 1999-2000
1-44 academic year;
1-45 (3) 150 for the 2000 summer session and 2000-2001
1-46 academic year; and
1-47 (4) 200 for the 2001 summer session and 2001-2002
1-48 academic year.
1-49 (b) The institution may not admit a student as a freshman
1-50 before the 1998 summer session.
1-51 (c) This section expires January 1, 2003.
1-52 SECTION 3. Section 76.07, Education Code, is amended to read
1-53 as follows:
1-54 Sec. 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER
1-55 INSTITUTIONS. (a) The institution shall seek to build and expand
1-56 partnership agreements in the same manner as authorized by
1-57 Subchapter N, Chapter 51 [of this code]. With the approval of the
1-58 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the institution may
1-59 enter into a partnership agreement with a private institution of
1-60 higher education located in the same county as any campus of the
1-61 institution, subject to the same provisions as provided by
1-62 Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a partnership agreement between an
1-63 [the] institution covered by that section and a public junior
1-64 college.
2-1 (b) In developing programs and courses subject to a
2-2 partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an
2-3 agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to
2-4 recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting
2-5 programs of institutions of higher education.
2-6 (c) [In deciding whether the institution may offer any lower
2-7 division courses pursuant to Section 76.02 of this code, the
2-8 institution and any other party to a partnership agreement shall
2-9 take into account, in addition to any other relevant factors, the
2-10 cost-effectiveness and other impact such courses will have on
2-11 students likely to enroll in the courses as well as any impact such
2-12 courses will have on the community as a whole.]
2-13 [(d) If the institution offers lower division courses, the
2-14 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a formula
2-15 pursuant to its duties and powers under this code that applies the
2-16 formula for four-year general academic teaching institutions to all
2-17 lower division semester credit hours offered at the institution in
2-18 addition to any other formula funding that the institution might be
2-19 entitled to receive for upper division credit hours that it offers.]
2-20 [(e)] A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled
2-21 in the institution and another public institution of higher
2-22 education under a program offered jointly by the two institutions
2-23 under a partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges
2-24 required of Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided
2-25 by Section 54.064 because the student holds a competitive
2-26 scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of
2-27 Texas residents at each public institution of higher education in
2-28 which the student is simultaneously enrolled under the program.
2-29 (d) [(f)] The institution and other parties to a partnership
2-30 agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus
2-31 service or other transportation service for or among the campuses
2-32 of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may
2-33 charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the
2-34 campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or
2-35 term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or
2-36 part of the costs of that service.
2-37 SECTION 4. Not later than May 31, 1998, the Texas Higher
2-38 Education Coordinating Board shall prepare a nonbinding impact
2-39 statement examining the initial implementation of this Act and
2-40 shall deliver a copy of the statement to the board of regents of
2-41 The University of Texas System, to the board of trustees of Tyler
2-42 Junior College District, and to the chair of the standing committee
2-43 of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over
2-44 higher education.
2-45 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-50 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-51 passage, and it is so enacted.
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