Bill Text: TX HB3689 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Oliveira | H.B. No. 3689 | ||
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By: Bonnen | C.S.H.B. No. 3689 |
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relating to The University of Texas at Brownsville, including its | ||
partnership agreement with the Texas Southmost College District. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 78.02(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The university may enter into any [ |
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agreement with the Texas Southmost [ |
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to facilitate higher education advancement and opportunity in the | ||
district's service area and the transition of students from Texas | ||
Southmost College to [ |
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cover any matter related to those purposes, including the | ||
facilitation of the transfer of course credit and the alignment of | ||
courses between the university and the college. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 78.03(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The board may prescribe courses at the university | ||
leading to customary degrees offered at leading American | ||
universities and may award those degrees, including bachelor's, | ||
master's, and doctoral degrees and their equivalents [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 78.04, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 78.04. FACILITIES. (a) The board shall make | ||
provisions for adequate physical facilities for use by the | ||
university. Subject to the agreement of the parties as provided by | ||
Subsection (b), the facilities may include facilities[ |
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committed by the board of trustees of the Texas Southmost [ |
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campus. The provision of facilities is[ |
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requirements of the board and the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board. | ||
(b) The board and the board of trustees of the Texas | ||
Southmost College District may contract with each other for the use | ||
of facilities. The terms of the contract shall be negotiated | ||
between the parties and must provide for reasonable compensation | ||
for the use of facilities. | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 78.02(b) and (d), 78.07, and 78.08, | ||
Education Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. (a) The University of Texas at Brownsville and | ||
the Texas Southmost College District, formerly referred to as the | ||
Southmost Union Junior College District, are free-standing, | ||
independent institutions that have operated in close association | ||
under a partnership agreement authorized by Section 78.02, | ||
Education Code. It is the intent of this Act to facilitate the | ||
independent operation of the university and the college district in | ||
the absence of such a partnership, but this Act does not affect the | ||
authority of the university and the college district to continue in | ||
partnership or to establish a new partnership at a future date. | ||
(b) The university and the college district shall cooperate | ||
to ensure that each institution timely achieves separate | ||
accreditation from a recognized accrediting agency before the | ||
termination of the existing partnership agreement and shall | ||
continue a partnership agreement in effect until August 31, 2015, | ||
to the extent necessary to ensure accreditation. | ||
(c) The university and the college district may extend or | ||
renew the existing agreement, agree to its earlier termination, or | ||
execute a new agreement as necessary to ensure accreditation. | ||
SECTION 6. 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. |