83rd Legislative Session

Texas 83rd Legislative Session Updates: House Floor Amendments for March 19, 2013

1             Amend C.S.H.B. No. 1000 (house committee printing) on page 2,

2   between lines 23 and 24, by adding the following:

3             (f) The board has all the powers and duties provided by

4   prior law, as that law existed at the time the applicable university

5   or other entity was abolished, in regard to:

6                     (1) The University of Texas at Brownsville, The

7   University  of Texas–Pan American, and any other institution,

8   college, school, or entity abolished under the Act authorizing

9   creation of the university; and

10                     (2) any  facility,  operation,  or  program  that  is

11   transferred to the university under that Act.

12             (g) The board may impose and collect any fee authorized by

13   prior law, as that law existed at the time the applicable university

14   was abolished, for The University of Texas at Brownsville or The

15   University of Texas-—Pan American, as determined by the board and

16   subject to the limitations provided by the prior law authorizing

17   the fee.  The abolition of The University of Texas at Brownsville

18   and The University of Texas—-Pan American does not affect any

19   pledge of revenue from a fee made by or on behalf of either of those

20   universities  to pay obligations  issued  in connection with

21   facilities for which the fee was imposed and the obligations were

22   issued.