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.