1-1 By: Sadler (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 1049
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to designating the Texas State Technical College System
1-9 extension center in the city of Marshall as a campus of the
1-10 system.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 135.02(a), Education Code, as amended by
1-13 Section 3, Chapter 359, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
1-14 Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) The Texas State Technical College System is composed of:
1-16 (1) a system office located in the city of Waco in
1-17 McLennan County;
1-18 (2) a campus located in the city of Amarillo in Potter
1-19 County;
1-20 (3) a campus located in the city of Harlingen in
1-21 Cameron County;
1-22 (4) a campus located in the city of Sweetwater in
1-23 Nolan County;
1-24 (5) a campus [an extension center] located in the city
1-25 of Marshall in Harrison County;
1-26 (6) a campus located in the city of Waco in McLennan
1-27 County;
1-28 (7) extension centers in the city of Brownwood in
1-29 Brown County and the city of Abilene in Taylor County and an
1-30 extension program offered through a rural technology center in the
1-31 city of Breckenridge in Stephens County; and
1-32 (8) other campuses assigned to the system from time to
1-33 time by specific legislative Act.
1-34 SECTION 2. Section 62.021(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-35 read as follows:
1-36 (a) Each fiscal year, an eligible institution is entitled to
1-37 receive an amount allocated in accordance with this section from
1-38 funds appropriated by Article VII, Section 17(a), of the
1-39 Constitution of Texas. The comptroller of public accounts shall
1-40 distribute funds allocated under this subsection only on
1-41 presentation of a claim and issuance of a warrant in accordance
1-42 with Section 403.071, Government Code. The comptroller may not
1-43 issue a warrant from any funds allocated under this subsection
1-44 before the delivery of goods or services described in Section 17,
1-45 Article VII, Texas Constitution, except for the payment of
1-46 principal or interest on bonds or notes. The allocation of funds
1-47 under this subsection is made in accordance with an equitable
1-48 formula consisting of the following elements: space deficit,
1-49 facilities condition, institutional complexity, separate
1-50 allocations for medical units and the Texas State Technical College
1-51 System, and an additional allocation for Texas Southern University
1-52 for compliance with the Texas Desegregation Plan. The amounts
1-53 allocated by the formula are as follows:
1-54 $ 5,572,558 East Texas State University including East Texas
1-55 State University at Texarkana;
1-56 $ 9,468,548 Lamar University including Lamar University at
1-57 Orange and Lamar University at Port Arthur;
1-58 $ 2,862,203 Midwestern State University;
1-59 $20,217,740 University of North Texas;
1-60 $10,174,500 The University of Texas--Pan American and The
1-61 University of Texas at Brownsville;
1-62 $ 6,468,273 Stephen F. Austin State University;
1-63 $ 3,640,000 University of North Texas Health Science Center at
1-64 Fort Worth;
2-1 $23,181,556 Texas State University System Administration and the
2-2 following component institutions: Angelo State
2-3 University; Sam Houston State University; Southwest
2-4 Texas State University; Sul Ross State University
2-5 including Uvalde Center;
2-6 $ 8,199,288 Texas Southern University (includes allocation of
2-7 $1,000,000 for compliance with Texas Desegregation
2-8 Plan);
2-9 $16,887,085 Texas Tech University;
2-10 $ 7,735,000 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center;
2-11 $ 6,849,160 Texas Woman's University;
2-12 $37,726,969 University of Houston System Administration and the
2-13 following component institutions: University of
2-14 Houston; University of Houston--Victoria; University
2-15 of Houston--Clear Lake; University of
2-16 Houston--Downtown;
2-17 $12,167,120 Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi; Texas A&M
2-18 International University; Texas A&M
2-19 University--Kingsville; West Texas A&M University;
2-20 and
2-21 $ 3,850,000 Texas State Technical College System Administration
2-22 and the following component campuses, but not its
2-23 extension centers or programs: Texas State Technical
2-24 College-Amarillo; Texas State Technical
2-25 College-Harlingen; Texas State Technical
2-26 College-Marshall; Texas State Technical
2-27 College-Sweetwater; Texas State Technical
2-28 College--Waco.
2-29 SECTION 3. Sections 135.02(d) and (e), Education Code, are
2-30 repealed.
2-31 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-32 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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