Bill Text: TX HB3159 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding the economic impact of general academic teaching institutions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Higher Education [HB3159 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3159-Introduced.html
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| By: Button | H.B. No. 3159 | |
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| relating to a study regarding the economic impact of general | ||
| academic teaching institutions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0519 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0519. STUDY ON ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL ACADEMIC | ||
| TEACHING INSTITUTIONS. (a) The board shall conduct a study to | ||
| examine the economic impact of general academic teaching | ||
| institutions on this state. In conducting the study, the board may | ||
| collaborate with general academic teaching institutions and other | ||
| state agencies. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1, 2018, the board shall submit | ||
| to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, and the members of each legislative standing | ||
| committee with primary jurisdiction over higher education a written | ||
| report that contains the results of the study under Subsection (a). | ||
| (c) This section expires January 1, 2019. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
