| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed November 21, 2016; January 30, 2017, |
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| 3 | | - | read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; |
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| 4 | | - | March 13, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | | - | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 13, 2017, |
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| 6 | | - | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 249 By: Watson |
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| 2 | + | (Oliverson) |
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| 11 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 12 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 13 | 7 | | relating to the submission of an affordability and access report by |
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| 14 | 8 | | public institutions of higher education. |
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| 15 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 16 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Sections 51.4031(a) and (d), Education Code, are |
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| 17 | 11 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 18 | 12 | | (a) Not later than November 1 of each year, the chief |
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| 19 | 13 | | executive officer of each institution of higher education, as |
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| 20 | 14 | | defined by Section 61.003, shall provide to the governing board of |
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| 21 | 15 | | the institution and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board a |
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| 22 | 16 | | report for the preceding fall, spring, and summer semesters that |
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| 23 | 17 | | examines the affordability and access of the institution. |
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| 24 | 18 | | (d) An institution's report must be in the form prescribed |
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| 25 | 19 | | by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in consultation |
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| 26 | 20 | | with the institution. The coordinating board shall provide a |
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| 27 | 21 | | report received under this section to the governor, the lieutenant |
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| 28 | 22 | | governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and each |
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| 29 | 23 | | member of the legislature. The coordinating board may provide the |
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| 30 | 24 | | report electronically. |
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| 31 | 25 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 32 | 26 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 33 | 27 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 34 | 28 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 35 | 29 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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