1-1     By:  Ratliff                                          S.B. No. 1422

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 8, 1997,

 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;

 1-5     April 8, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the procedures governing the funding formulas

 1-9     established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 61.059, Education Code,

1-12     is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (d)  Not later than June 1 [March 1] of every even-numbered

1-14     calendar year, the board shall notify the governing boards and the

1-15     chief administrative officers of the respective institutions of

1-16     higher education and university systems, the governor, and the

1-17     Legislative Budget Board of the formulas designated by the board to

1-18     be used by the institutions in making appropriation requests for

1-19     the next succeeding biennium and shall certify to the governor and

1-20     the Legislative Budget Board that each institution has prepared its

1-21     appropriation request in accordance with the designated formulas

1-22     and in accordance with the uniform system of reporting provided in

1-23     this chapter.  The board shall furnish any other assistance to the

1-24     governor and the Legislative Budget Board in the development of

1-25     appropriations recommendations as either or both of them may

1-26     request.  However, nothing in this chapter shall prevent or

1-27     prohibit the governor, the Legislative Budget Board, the board, or

1-28     the governing board of any institution of higher education from

1-29     requesting or recommending deviations from any applicable formula

1-30     or formulas prescribed by the board and advancing reasons and

1-31     arguments in support of them.

1-32           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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