1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to designating the Texas State Technical College System
1-3 extension center in the city of Marshall as a campus of the
1-4 system.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 135.02(a), Education Code, as amended by
1-7 Section 3, Chapter 359, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
1-8 Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
1-9 (a) The Texas State Technical College System is composed of:
1-10 (1) a system office located in the city of Waco in
1-11 McLennan County;
1-12 (2) a campus located in the city of Amarillo in Potter
1-13 County;
1-14 (3) a campus located in the city of Harlingen in
1-15 Cameron County;
1-16 (4) a campus located in the city of Sweetwater in
1-17 Nolan County;
1-18 (5) a campus [an extension center] located in the city
1-19 of Marshall in Harrison County;
1-20 (6) a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan
1-21 County;
1-22 (7) extension centers in the city of Brownwood in
1-23 Brown County and the city of Abilene in Taylor County and an
1-24 extension program offered through a rural technology center in the
2-1 city of Breckenridge in Stephens County; and
2-2 (8) other campuses assigned to the system from time to
2-3 time by specific legislative Act.
2-4 SECTION 2. Section 62.021(a), Education Code, is amended to
2-5 read as follows:
2-6 (a) Each fiscal year, an eligible institution is entitled to
2-7 receive an amount allocated in accordance with this section from
2-8 funds appropriated by Article VII, Section 17(a), of the
2-9 Constitution of Texas. The comptroller of public accounts shall
2-10 distribute funds allocated under this subsection only on
2-11 presentation of a claim and issuance of a warrant in accordance
2-12 with Section 403.071, Government Code. The comptroller may not
2-13 issue a warrant from any funds allocated under this subsection
2-14 before the delivery of goods or services described in Section 17,
2-15 Article VII, Texas Constitution, except for the payment of
2-16 principal or interest on bonds or notes. The allocation of funds
2-17 under this subsection is made in accordance with an equitable
2-18 formula consisting of the following elements: space deficit,
2-19 facilities condition, institutional complexity, separate
2-20 allocations for medical units and the Texas State Technical College
2-21 System, and an additional allocation for Texas Southern University
2-22 for compliance with the Texas Desegregation Plan. The amounts
2-23 allocated by the formula are as follows:
2-24 $ 5,572,558 East Texas State University including East Texas
2-25 State University at Texarkana;
2-26 $ 9,468,548 Lamar University including Lamar University at
2-27 Orange and Lamar University at Port Arthur;
3-1 $ 2,862,203 Midwestern State University;
3-2 $20,217,740 University of North Texas;
3-3 $10,174,500 The University of Texas--Pan American and The
3-4 University of Texas at Brownsville;
3-5 $ 6,468,273 Stephen F. Austin State University;
3-6 $ 3,640,000 University of North Texas Health Science Center at
3-7 Fort Worth;
3-8 $23,181,556 Texas State University System Administration and the
3-9 following component institutions: Angelo State
3-10 University; Sam Houston State University; Southwest
3-11 Texas State University; Sul Ross State University
3-12 including Uvalde Center;
3-13 $ 8,199,288 Texas Southern University (includes allocation of
3-14 $1,000,000 for compliance with Texas Desegregation
3-15 Plan);
3-16 $16,887,085 Texas Tech University;
3-17 $ 7,735,000 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center;
3-18 $ 6,849,160 Texas Woman's University;
3-19 $37,726,969 University of Houston System Administration and the
3-20 following component institutions: University of
3-21 Houston; University of Houston--Victoria; University
3-22 of Houston--Clear Lake; University of
3-23 Houston--Downtown;
3-24 $12,167,120 Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi; Texas A&M
3-25 International University; Texas A&M
3-26 University--Kingsville; West Texas A&M University;
3-27 and
4-1 $ 3,850,000 Texas State Technical College System Administration
4-2 and the following component campuses, but not its
4-3 extension centers or programs: Texas State Technical
4-4 College-Amarillo; Texas State Technical
4-5 College-Harlingen; Texas State Technical
4-6 College-Marshall; Texas State Technical
4-7 College-Sweetwater; Texas State Technical
4-8 College--Waco.
4-9 SECTION 3. Sections 135.02(d) and (e), Education Code, are
4-10 repealed.
4-11 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
4-12 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
4-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1049 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1049 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor