Bill Text: TX SB30 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 30 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the distribution of money appropriated from the national research university fund.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - No action taken in committee [SB30 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB30-Introduced.html

	83R1115 KEL-D

	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 30



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the distribution of money appropriated from the
	national research university fund.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 62.148(c), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c) Subject to Subsection (e), of the total amount
	appropriated from the fund for distribution in a state fiscal year,
	each eligible institution is entitled to a distribution in an
	amount equal to the sum of:
	(1) a fraction [~~one-seventh~~] of the total amount
	appropriated, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of
	which is the total number of general academic teaching institutions
	that are at the time of the distribution designated as emerging
	research universities under the coordinating board's
	accountability system; and
	(2) an equal share of any amount remaining after
	distributions are calculated under Subdivision (1), not to exceed
	an amount equal to one-fourth of that remaining amount.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
	62.148(c), Education Code, applies to money appropriated from the
	national research university fund for each state fiscal year that
	begins on or after September 1, 2013.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.