** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Higher Education 

TIME & DATE:  10:00 AM, Monday, March 27, 2023 

PLACE:        E2.010 
CHAIR:        Rep. John Kuempel 

Testimony may be limited at the discretion of the chair.

The Committee will hear public testimony on the following items:

HB 683         Cole | et al.                             
Relating to the exemption of tuition and laboratory fees at public institutions of higher education for certain paramedics.

HB 989         Howard                                    
Relating to the establishment of a higher education plan for human papillomavirus education and prevention.

HB 1595        Bonnen                                    
Relating to the administration and investment of, and distribution and use of money from, certain constitutional and statutory funds to support general academic teaching institutions in achieving national prominence as major research universities and driving the state economy; redesignating the national research fund as the Texas University Fund.

HB 1604        González, Mary                            
Relating to a report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding students with disabilities in higher education.

HB 1912        Button | et al.                           
Relating to student buildings fees at The University of Texas at Dallas.

HB 2026        Darby                                     
Relating to the Rural Veterinarian Incentive Program.

HB 2132        Harris, Caroline                          
Relating to a campus of the Texas State Technical College System located in Williamson County.

HB 2804        Kuempel                                   
Relating to use of the name, image, or likeness of a student athlete participating in an intercollegiate athletic program at an institution of higher education.

HB 4434        Kuempel                                   
Relating to the establishment of certain programs to facilitate early high school graduation and enrollment at public institutions of higher education and to the repeal of the Early High School Graduation Scholarship program.

HB 4437        Kuempel                                   
Relating to the confidentiality of student records held by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

HJR 3          Bonnen                                    
Proposing a constitutional amendment renaming the national research university fund as the Texas University Fund, providing for the appropriation of certain investment income from the economic stabilization fund to the Texas University Fund, excepting appropriations to and from the Texas University Fund from the constitutional limit on the rate of growth of appropriations, and appropriating money from the general revenue fund to the Texas University Fund to be spent for purposes of providing funding to certain public institutions of higher education to achieve national prominence as major research universities and drive the state economy.

For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx

A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until the hearing is adjourned by visiting: https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c290

Bills deleted after last posting:

HB 3997

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