By Harris S.B. No. 481
76R5434 JSA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the purchase of periodical subscriptions by certain
1-3 institutions of higher education with constitutional funds.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 62.021(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each fiscal year, an eligible institution is entitled to
1-8 receive an amount allocated in accordance with this section from
1-9 funds appropriated by Article VII, Section 17(a), of the
1-10 Constitution of Texas. The comptroller of public accounts shall
1-11 distribute funds allocated under this subsection only on
1-12 presentation of a claim and issuance of a warrant in accordance
1-13 with Section 403.071, Government Code. The comptroller may not
1-14 issue a warrant from any funds allocated under this subsection
1-15 before the delivery of goods or services described in Section 17,
1-16 Article VII, Texas Constitution, except for the payment of
1-17 principal or interest on bonds or notes or the purchase of a
1-18 periodical subscription for a period not to exceed one year. The
1-19 allocation of funds under this subsection is made in accordance
1-20 with an equitable formula consisting of the following elements:
1-21 space deficit, facilities condition, institutional complexity,
1-22 separate allocations for medical units and the Texas State
1-23 Technical College System, and an additional allocation for Texas
1-24 Southern University for compliance with the Texas Desegregation
2-1 Plan. The amounts allocated by the formula are as follows:
2-2 $ 5,572,558 Texas A&M University--Commerce [East Texas State
2-3 University] including Texas A&M
2-4 University--Texarkana [East Texas State University
2-5 at Texarkana];
2-6 $ 9,468,548 Lamar University including Lamar University at
2-7 Orange and Lamar University at Port Arthur;
2-8 $ 2,862,203 Midwestern State University;
2-9 $20,217,740 University of North Texas;
2-10 $10,174,500 The University of Texas--Pan American and The
2-11 University of Texas at Brownsville;
2-12 $ 6,468,273 Stephen F. Austin State University;
2-13 $ 3,640,000 University of North Texas Health Science Center at
2-14 Fort Worth;
2-15 $23,181,556 Texas State University System Administration and the
2-16 following component institutions: Angelo State
2-17 University; Sam Houston State University; Southwest
2-18 Texas State University; Sul Ross State University
2-19 including Rio Grande College [Uvalde Center];
2-20 $ 8,199,288 Texas Southern University (includes allocation of
2-21 $1,000,000 for compliance with Texas Desegregation
2-22 Plan);
2-23 $16,887,085 Texas Tech University;
2-24 $ 7,735,000 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center;
2-25 $ 6,849,160 Texas Woman's University;
2-26 $37,726,969 University of Houston System Administration and the
2-27 following component institutions: University of
3-1 Houston; University of Houston--Victoria;
3-2 University of Houston--Clear Lake; University of
3-3 Houston--Downtown;
3-4 $12,167,120 Texas A & M University--Corpus Christi; Texas A & M
3-5 International University; Texas A & M
3-6 University--Kingsville; West Texas A & M University;
3-7 and
3-8 $ 3,850,000 Texas State Technical College System Administration
3-9 and the following component campuses, but not its
3-10 extension centers or programs: Texas State Technical
3-11 College-Amarillo; Texas State Technical
3-12 College-Harlingen; Texas State Technical
3-13 College-Sweetwater; Texas State Technical
3-14 College--Waco.
3-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-21 passage, and it is so enacted.