Bill Text: TX SB496 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to review and approve capital projects and purchases of real property at public institutions of higher education in this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-15 - Left pending in committee [SB496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB496-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to review and approve capital projects and purchases of real property at public institutions of higher education in this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-15 - Left pending in committee [SB496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB496-Comm_Sub.html
By: Seliger, Eltife | S.B. No. 496 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 11, 2013; February 13, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 15, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; April 15, 2013, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 496 | By: Seliger |
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relating to the authority of the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board to review and approve capital projects and | ||
purchases of real property at public institutions of higher | ||
education in this state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsections (b), (d), and (e), Section 61.0572, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The board shall: | ||
(1) determine formulas for space utilization in all | ||
educational and general buildings and facilities at institutions of | ||
higher education; | ||
(2) devise and promulgate methods to assure maximum | ||
daily and year-round use of educational and general buildings and | ||
facilities, including but not limited to maximum scheduling of day | ||
and night classes and maximum summer school enrollment; | ||
(3) consider plans for selective standards of | ||
admission when institutions of higher education approach capacity | ||
enrollment; | ||
(4) require, and assist the public technical | ||
institutes, public senior colleges and universities, medical and | ||
dental units, and other agencies of higher education in developing | ||
long-range campus master plans for campus development; and | ||
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specifications for new construction, repair, and rehabilitation of | ||
all buildings and facilities are in accordance with Chapter 469, | ||
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improved real property added to an institution's educational and | ||
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the property meets the standards adopted by the board for cost, | ||
efficiency, and space use, but the purchase of the improved real | ||
property is not contingent on board review. If the property does | ||
not meet those standards, the board shall notify the governor, the | ||
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
and the Legislative Budget Board. This subsection does not impair | ||
the board's authority to collect data relating to the improved real | ||
property that is added each year to the educational and general | ||
buildings and facilities inventory of institutions of higher | ||
education. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 61.058, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
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not require appropriations from the legislature for operation, | ||
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construction, repair, or rehabilitation of buildings and | ||
facilities at institutions of higher education [ |
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construction, rehabilitation, or repair meets the standards | ||
adopted by board rule for cost, efficiency, and space use, but the | ||
construction, rehabilitation, or repair is not contingent on board | ||
review. If the construction, rehabilitation, or repair does not | ||
meet those standards, the board shall notify the governor, the | ||
lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
and the Legislative Budget Board. This subsection does not impair | ||
the board's authority to collect data relating to the construction, | ||
repair, or rehabilitation of buildings and facilities occurring | ||
each year at institutions of higher education. | ||
SECTION 3. The following provisions of the Education Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 61.0573; and | ||
(2) Subsection (c), Section 61.058. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. | ||
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