82R603 KSD-F
 
  By: Lucio III H.B. No. 50
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment by The University of Texas System of a
  law school in the Rio Grande Valley.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 75, Education Code, is amended by adding
  Subchapter D to read as follows:
  SUBCHAPTER D. RIO GRANDE VALLEY SCHOOL OF LAW
         Sec. 75.251.  DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "board" means
  the board of regents of The University of Texas System.
         Sec. 75.252.  RIO GRANDE VALLEY SCHOOL OF LAW. (a)  The
  board may establish and operate as a professional school of The
  University of Texas System a school of law in Cameron County or
  Hidalgo County as the board considers appropriate.
         (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)  Before the board establishes a law school under this
  section, the board shall request the Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board to prepare a feasibility study to determine the
  actions the system must take to obtain accreditation of the law
  school. The coordinating board shall deliver a copy of the study to
  the board and to the chair of each legislative standing committee or
  subcommittee with jurisdiction over higher education.
         SECTION 2.  No funds for a state fiscal biennium ending on or
  before August 31, 2017, may be appropriated for the purposes of
  Subchapter D, Chapter 75, Education Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2011.