Bill Text: TX HB50 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment by The University of Texas System of a law school in the Rio Grande Valley.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-09 - Referred to Higher Education [HB50 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB50-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 50 | |
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| 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. | ||
