Bill Text: TX HR585 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Recognizing March 5, 2019, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-3)

Status: (Passed) 2019-03-13 - Reported enrolled [HR585 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HR585-Enrolled.html

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H.R. No. 585

R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Distinguished representatives of the Texas Tech
University System are gathering at the State Capitol on March 5,
2019, to celebrate the system's vital role in the Lone Star State;
and
WHEREAS, The system, governed by a nine-member board of
regents and chancellor Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, consists of Texas Tech
University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Angelo
State University, and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
El Paso; the system is a $2 billion enterprise that currently
educates nearly 55,000 students, conducts research that results in
more than $228 million in expenditures annually, and counts over
340,000 alumni; the system also has a $1.36 billion endowment and
some 20,000 faculty and staff focused on advancing higher
education, health care, research, and outreach across the state
while the system pursues impactful initiatives that stand to serve
and solve challenges facing West Texas and the state; and
WHEREAS, Each component of the system provides innovative
educational and research opportunities; Texas Tech University, the
flagship institution, is a major comprehensive research
university, led by President Lawrence Schovanec; with more than
38,000 students in 10 colleges and 2 schools, Texas Tech has set a
new fall enrollment record for the past 10 years, increasing
enrollment 34 percent over a decade; in 2018, the university earned
designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution, furthering its
vision of educating a diverse, robust population of students; with
the goal of being one of the nation's premier research
institutions, the university's total research expenditures have
increased 237 percent within a decade; additionally, the Carnegie
Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recently
reaffirmed Texas Tech in its "Very High Research Activity"
category, affirming the university as one of 86 public Tier One
research institutions in the nation; in its continual pursuit to
fulfill the university's mission of innovative problem solving,
Texas Tech is establishing the state's first veterinary school in
over 100 years to provide veterinarians to the non-metropolitan and
agricultural communities in critical need and to expand educational
opportunities for Texas; and
WHEREAS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is
celebrating its 50th year, having grown from a school of medicine
into a comprehensive health-related institution composed of
five schools in diverse health care disciplines, including
medicine, nursing, pharmacy, health professions, and biomedical
sciences, that has trained more than 28,000 health care
professionals; overseen by Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, TTUHSC enrolls
more than 5,000 students and has dedicated over $218 million in
research expenditures in the past five years, with significant
studies in areas such as aging, cancer, reproduction, parasites,
and genetic diseases; the university also graduates more health
care professionals than any other health-related institution in
Texas and meets the health care needs of nearly three million people
who live throughout a vast 108-county area; and
WHEREAS, Having joined the system in 2007, Angelo State
University enrolls more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate, and
doctoral students in more than 100 majors and concentrations and is
directed by President Brian J. May; designated as a Hispanic
Serving Institution, ASU was the first university in the state to
offer a degree in computer science, recently introduced its rapidly
expanding engineering programs, and has been named to the Princeton
Review's "Best Colleges" list every year since 2010; unique to ASU,
its Carr Academic Scholarship program is funded by one of the
largest endowments at a regional university in the U.S., thus
making scholarships possible for approximately one out of every
three of its students; and
WHEREAS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
became a stand-alone health sciences center in 2013, making it the
fourth and newest member of the Texas Tech University System;
TTUHSC El Paso is composed of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine,
the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing, and the Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences; headed by Dr. Richard Lange, the university
enrolls more than 1,000 students, is home to the first medical
school on the nation's southern border, conducts important research
focused on cancer, diabetes and obesity, infectious diseases, and
the neurosciences, and will soon add the Woody L. Hunt School of
Dental Medicine to elevate access to critical dental care for West
Texans; and
WHEREAS, Students from Texas Tech's College of Agricultural
Sciences and Natural Resources Matador Institute of Leadership
Engagement are present today as they cultivate professional
leadership skills and participate in key issues affecting local,
state, and national agriculture and policy; also present today are
Angelo State political science students representing the Ram family
and getting hands-on experience in their studies; members of
student government associations from across the TTU System have
traveled to Austin to represent their universities and advocate for
the system's priorities and student body; and
WHEREAS, Through its missions, the Texas Tech University
System and its four component institutions continue to better the
higher education and health care landscapes, and in so doing, they
are contributing to the remarkable achievements of the state as a
whole; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas
Legislature hereby recognize March 5, 2019, as Texas Tech
University System Day at the State Capitol and extend a warm welcome
to all those from the system who are visiting here today.
Frullo Burrows
Price Craddick
Moody Blanco
Clardy Darby
Holland
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Speaker of the House
I certify that H.R. No. 585 was adopted by the House on March
5, 2019,
by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House