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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