1-1 By: Sibley, Nelson, Haywood S.B. No. 1859
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 13, 1999; April 14, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 29, 1999,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1859 By: Zaffirini
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the creation of the Texas Woman's University System.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 107, Education
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 CHAPTER 107. TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 107, Education Code, is
1-15 amended by adding Section 107.001 to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 107.001. TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. (a) The
1-17 Texas Woman's University System hereby created, in its entirety as
1-18 one appropriations agency, is composed of all those units,
1-19 divisions, institutions, and other agencies of higher education
1-20 presently under the governance, control, jurisdiction, and
1-21 management of the board of regents of Texas Woman's University.
1-22 (b) The governance, control, jurisdiction, organization, and
1-23 management of the Texas Woman's University System and each
1-24 component of the system is hereby vested in the present board of
1-25 regents of Texas Woman's University, which will hereinafter be
1-26 known and designated as the board of regents of Texas Woman's
1-27 University System.
1-28 SECTION 3. Section 107.42, Education Code, is amended to
1-29 read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 107.42. STAFF. The board shall appoint a chancellor or
1-31 president of the university system and other officers and employees
1-32 of the system and its components it deems proper and shall fix
1-33 their salaries. The board shall make rules and regulations for the
1-34 government of the [university's] staff of the system and its
1-35 components as it deems advisable.
1-36 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
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