By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1422
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the procedures governing the funding formulas
1-2 established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 61.059, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) Not later than June 1 [March 1] of every even-numbered
1-7 calendar year, the board shall notify the governing boards and the
1-8 chief administrative officers of the respective institutions of
1-9 higher education and university systems, the governor, and the
1-10 Legislative Budget Board of the formulas designated by the board to
1-11 be used by the institutions in making appropriation requests for
1-12 the next succeeding biennium and shall certify to the governor and
1-13 the Legislative Budget Board that each institution has prepared its
1-14 appropriation request in accordance with the designated formulas
1-15 and in accordance with the uniform system of reporting provided in
1-16 this chapter. The board shall furnish any other assistance to the
1-17 governor and the Legislative Budget Board in the development of
1-18 appropriations recommendations as either or both of them may
1-19 request. However, nothing in this chapter shall prevent or
1-20 prohibit the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, the board, or
1-21 the governing board of any institution of higher education from
1-22 requesting or recommending deviations from any applicable formula
1-23 or formulas prescribed by the board and advancing reasons and
2-1 arguments in support of them.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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