By:  Sibley                                           S.B. No. 1859
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the creation of the Texas Woman's University System and
 1-2     declaring the Texas Woman's University Institute of Health Sciences
 1-3     a health related institution.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 107, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending the chapter heading to read as follows:
 1-7                CHAPTER 107.  TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
 1-8           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 107, Education Code, is
 1-9     amended by adding Section 107.001 to read as follows:
1-10           Sec. 107.001.  Texas Woman's University System.  (a)  The
1-11     Texas Woman's University System hereby created, in its entirety as
1-12     one appropriations agency, is composed of all those units,
1-13     divisions, institutions, and other agencies of higher education
1-14     presently under the governance, control, jurisdiction, and
1-15     management of the Board of Regents of the Texas Woman's University.
1-16           (b)  The governance, control, jurisdiction, organization, and
1-17     management of the Texas Woman's University System and each
1-18     component of the system is hereby vested in the present Board of
1-19     Regents of the Texas Woman's University, which will hereinafter be
1-20     known and designated as the Board of Regents of the Texas Woman's
1-21     University System.
1-22           SECTION 3.  Section 107.42, Education Code, is amended to
 2-1     read as follows:
 2-2           Sec. 107.42.  Staff.  The board shall appoint a
 2-3     chancellor/president of the university system and other officers
 2-4     and employees of the system and its components it deems proper and
 2-5     shall fix their salaries.  The board shall make rules and
 2-6     regulations for the government of the [university's] staff of the
 2-7     system and its components as it deems advisable.
 2-8           SECTION 4.  Section 107.43, Education Code is amended to read
 2-9     as follows:
2-10           Sec. 107.43.  Departments.  The board shall divide the course
2-11     of instruction into departments and shall select careful and
2-12     efficient professors in each department, in order to secure the
2-13     best possible instruction in all areas of study.  The Institute of
2-14     Health Sciences, part of the Texas Woman's University System, is
2-15     hereby declared a health related institution.
2-16           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-22     passage, and it is so enacted.