By:  Ratliff                                          S.B. No. 1422

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                                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.  Section 61.059(d), Education Code, is

 1-5     amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  Not later than June 1 [March 1] of every even-numbered

 1-8     calendar year, the board shall notify the governing boards and the

 1-9     chief administrative officers of the respective institutions of

1-10     higher education and university systems, the governor, and the

1-11     Legislative Budget Board of the formulas designated by the board to

1-12     be used by the institutions in making appropriation requests for

1-13     the next succeeding biennium and shall certify to the governor and

1-14     the Legislative Budget Board that each institution has prepared its

1-15     appropriation request in accordance with the designated formulas

1-16     and in accordance with the uniform system of reporting provided in

1-17     this chapter.  The board shall furnish any other assistance to the

1-18     governor and the Legislative Budget Board in the development of

1-19     appropriations recommendations as either or both of them may

1-20     request.  However, nothing in this chapter shall prevent or

1-21     prohibit the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, the board, or

 2-1     the governing board of any institution of higher education from

 2-2     requesting or recommending deviations from any applicable formula

 2-3     or formulas prescribed by the board and advancing reasons and

 2-4     arguments in support of them.

 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.