Bill Text: TX HB3689 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to The University of Texas at Brownsville, including its partnership agreement with the Texas Southmost College District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-19 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB3689 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3689-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to The University of Texas at Brownsville, including its partnership agreement with the Texas Southmost College District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-19 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB3689 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3689-Introduced.html
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By: Oliveira | H.B. No. 3689 |
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relating to the partnership agreement between The University of | ||
Texas at Brownsville and the Texas Southmost College District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 78.02(c) and (d), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The university may enter into a partnership agreement | ||
with the Texas Southmost [ |
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manner authorized by Subchapter N, Chapter 51, to offer a | ||
lower-division, occupational, or technical course that is not | ||
offered at the university. A partnership agreement must include: | ||
(1) the responsibilities of each institution under the | ||
agreement; | ||
(2) a description of the assets, property, and | ||
personnel to be shared by the institutions under the agreement; | ||
(3) a manner of assigning students to each institution | ||
based on factors such as the physical capacity of each | ||
institution's facilities and the courses and programs in which the | ||
students are enrolled; | ||
(4) a description of the certificate and degree | ||
programs and other curricula to be offered under the agreement and | ||
the process for appropriate accreditations; and | ||
(5) the manner for dissolving the agreement, including | ||
an appropriate disposition of assets and obligations. | ||
(d) The university shall, subject to the authority of the | ||
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, offer basic | ||
lower-division courses to support bachelor of arts and bachelor of | ||
science degree programs. If the Texas Southmost [ |
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College District provides regular operational support for Texas | ||
Southmost College and the partnership with the university | ||
authorized by Subsection (c), the university may offer additional | ||
lower-division courses. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 78.04, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 78.04. FACILITIES. The board shall make provisions | ||
for adequate physical facilities for use by the university, on land | ||
committed by the board of trustees of the Texas Southmost [ |
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campus, subject to the normal requirements of the board and the | ||
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. | ||
SECTION 3. Not later than the 90th day after the effective | ||
date of this Act, any partnership agreement between The University | ||
of Texas at Brownsville and the Southmost Union Junior College | ||
District entered under Section 78.02(c), Education Code, before the | ||
effective date of this Act shall be amended to meet the requirements | ||
of Section 78.02(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |