AN ACT
1-1 relating to the creation and composition of the University of North
1-2 Texas System.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 105, Education
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 CHAPTER 105. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM
1-7 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 105, Education Code, is
1-8 amended by adding Section 105.005 to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 105.005. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM. The
1-10 University of North Texas System is composed of:
1-11 (1) the University of North Texas; and
1-12 (2) the University of North Texas Health Science
1-13 Center at Fort Worth.
1-14 SECTION 3. Section 105.11, Education Code, is amended to
1-15 read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 105.11. BOARD OF REGENTS. The organization, control,
1-17 and management of the University of North Texas System and each
1-18 component institution of the system [university] is vested in a
1-19 board of nine regents appointed by the governor and confirmed by
1-20 the senate.
1-21 SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
1-22 section, this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 (b) Not later than August 31, 1999, the Texas Higher
1-24 Education Coordinating Board shall review and determine whether to
2-1 approve the creation of the University of North Texas System as
2-2 provided by this Act. If the coordinating board does not approve
2-3 the creation of that system on or before August 31, 1999, the
2-4 University of North Texas System is not created and this Act has no
2-5 effect.
2-6 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
2-12 terms, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 751 passed the Senate on
April 15, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 1999, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 751 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor