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.