By: Fraser S.B. No. 157
(In the Senate - Filed January 6, 2005; February 1, 2005, read
first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education; April
4, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute to
Committee on Education; April 18, 2005, reported adversely, with
favorable Committee Substitute from Committee on Education by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 18, 2005, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 157 By: Janek
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the student enrollment required for the operation of
Texas A&M University--Central Texas as an independent general
academic teaching institution.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 87.861, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter,
Texas A&M University--Central Texas may not operate as a general
academic teaching institution until the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board certifies that enrollment at the Tarleton State
University System Center--Central Texas in Killeen has reached an
enrollment equivalent of:
(1) 1,000 full-time students for one semester if the
legislature authorizes revenue bonds to be issued to finance
educational and related facilities for the institution, and the
bonds are issued for that purpose; or
(2) 2,500 full-time students for one semester if the
conditions specified by Subdivision (1) are not satisfied.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
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