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  By: West, et al.  S.B. No. 105
         (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2006; January 29, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
  April 12, 2007, reported favorably from Committee on Education by
  the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 12, 2007, sent to
  printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the establishment of a law school in the city of Dallas
  by the University of North Texas System.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter J, Chapter 105, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 105.502 to read as follows:
         Sec. 105.502.  UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM SCHOOL OF
  LAW. (a)  The board may establish and operate a school of law in
  the city of Dallas as a professional school of the University of
  North Texas System.
         (b)  In administering the law school, the board may prescribe
  courses leading to customary degrees offered at other leading
  American schools of law and may award those degrees.
         (c)  Until the University of North Texas at Dallas has been
  administered as a general academic teaching institution for five
  years, the board shall administer the law school as a professional
  school of the system.  After that period, the law school shall
  become a professional school of the University of North Texas at
  Dallas.  Until the law school becomes a professional school of the
  University of North Texas at Dallas, the law school is entitled to
  formula funding as if the law school were a professional school of a
  general academic teaching institution.
         (d)  Before the board establishes a law school under this
  section, but not later than June 1, 2008, the Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board shall prepare a feasibility study to determine
  the actions the system must take to obtain accreditation of the law
  school.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
  deliver a copy of the study to the chair of each legislative
  standing committee or subcommittee with jurisdiction over higher
  education.
         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, 2007.
 
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