83R456 KSD-F
By: Lucio III H.B. No. 67
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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, 2019, 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, 2013.