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Texas Constitution, Article 7

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Article 7, Education

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Tex. Const. art. 7, § 1 SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS
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A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free scho…
Tex. Const. art. 7, § 2B AUTHORITY TO RELEASE STATE'S INTEREST IN CERTAIN PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND LAND HELD BY PERSON UNDER COLOR OF TITLE
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(a) The legislature by law may provide for the release of all or part of the state's interest in land, excluding mineral rights, if: (1) the land is surveyed, unsold, permanent school fund land according to the records of the General Land Office; (2) the land is not patentable un…
Tex. Const. art. 7, § 2 PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND
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All funds, lands and other property heretofore set apart and appropriated for the support of public schools; all the alternate sections of land reserved by the State out of grants heretofore made or that may hereafter be made to railroads or other corporations of any nature whats…
Tex. Const. art. 7, § 2C RELEASE OF STATE CLAIM TO CERTAIN LANDS IN UPSHUR AND SMITH COUNTIES

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(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, the State of Texas relinquishes and releases any claim of sovereign ownership or title to an interest in and to the tracts of land, including mineral rights, described as follows: Tract 1: The first tract of land is situat…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 2A RELEASE OF STATE CLAIM TO CERTAIN LANDS AND MINERALS WITHIN SHELBY, FRAZIER, AND MCCORMICK LEAGUE AND IN BASTROP COUNTY

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(a) The State of Texas hereby relinquishes and releases any claim of sovereign ownership or title to an undivided one-third interest in and to the lands and minerals within the Shelby, Frazier, and McCormick League (now located in Fort Bend and Austin counties) arising out of the…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 3 TAXES FOR BENEFIT OF SCHOOLS; PROVISION OF FREE TEXT BOOKS; SCHOOL DISTRICTS

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(a) One-fourth of the revenue derived from the State occupation taxes shall be set apart annually for the benefit of the public free schools. (b) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to set aside a sufficient amount of available funds to provide free text books fo…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 3-b INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT AND JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT TAXES AND BONDS NOT AFFECTED BY CHANGES IN BOUNDARIES

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No tax for the maintenance of public free schools voted in any independent school district and no tax for the maintenance of a junior college voted by a junior college district, nor any bonds voted in any such district, but unissued, shall be abrogated, cancelled or invalidated b…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 4B DONATION OF REAL PROPERTY BY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION

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(a) The legislature by general law may authorize the board of trustees of an independent school district to donate district real property and improvements formerly used as a school campus for the purpose of preserving the improvements. (b) A law enacted under this section must pr…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 4 SALE OF PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND LANDS; INVESTMENT OF PROCEEDS

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The lands herein set apart to the Permanent School fund, shall be sold under such regulations, at such times, and on such terms as may be prescribed by law; and the Legislature shall not have power to grant any relief to purchasers thereof. The proceeds of such sales must be used…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 5 PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND AND AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND: COMPOSITION, MANAGEMENT, USE, AND DISTRIBUTION

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(a) The permanent school fund consists of all land appropriated for public schools by this constitution or the other laws of this state, other properties belonging to the permanent school fund, and all revenue derived from the land or other properties. The available school fund c…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 6 COUNTY SCHOOL LANDS AND PROCEEDS OF SALES HELD AS SCHOOL TRUST

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All lands heretofore, or hereafter granted to the several counties of this State for educational purposes, are of right the property of said counties respectively, to which they were granted, and title thereto is vested in said counties, and no adverse possession or limitation sh…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 6b COUNTY PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND: REDUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6, Article VII, Constitution of the State of Texas, any county, acting through the commissioners court, may reduce the county permanent school fund of that county and may distribute the amount of the reduction to the independent and commo…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 6a COUNTY AGRICULTURAL OR GRAZING SCHOOL LAND SUBJECT TO TAX

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All agriculture or grazing school land mentioned in Section 6 of this article owned by any county shall be subject to taxation except for State purposes to the same extent as lands privately owned. (Added Nov. 2, 1926.)

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 8 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

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The Legislature shall provide by law for a State Board of Education, whose members shall be appointed or elected in such manner and by such authority and shall serve for such terms as the Legislature shall prescribe not to exceed six years. The said board shall perform such dutie…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 10 ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT

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The Legislature shall as soon as practicable establish, organize and provide for the maintenance, support and direction of a University of the first class, to be located by a vote of the people of this State, and styled, "The University of Texas", for the promotion of literature,…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 11b EXPANDED INVESTMENT AUTHORITY FOR PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND

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Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution, in managing the assets of the permanent university fund, the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System may acquire, exchange, sell, supervise, manage, or retain, through procedures and subject to restrictions it e…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 11 ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND; INVESTMENT IN GOVERNMENT BONDS

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In order to enable the Legislature to perform the duties set forth in the foregoing Section, it is hereby declared all lands and other property heretofore set apart and appropriated for the establishment and maintenance of the University of Texas, together with all the proceeds o…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 11a INVESTMENT OF PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND

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In addition to the bonds enumerated in Section 11 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, the Board of Regents of The University of Texas may invest the Permanent University Fund in securities, bonds or other obligations issued, insured, or guaranteed in any man…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 12 SALE OF PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND LANDS

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The land herein set apart to the University fund shall be sold under such regulations, at such times, and on such terms as may be provided by law; and the Legislature shall provide for the prompt collection, at maturity, of all debts due on account of University lands, heretofore…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 13 AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE

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The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, established by an act of the Legislature passed April 17th, 1871, located in the county of Brazos, is hereby made, and constituted a Branch of the University of Texas, for instruction in Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, and the Nat…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 14 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY

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Prairie View A&M University in Waller County is an institution of the first class under the direction of the same governing board as Texas A&M University referred to in Article VII, Section 13, of this constitution as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. (Feb. 15, 18…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 15 GRANT OF ADDITIONAL LANDS TO UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

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In addition to the lands heretofore granted to the University of Texas, there is hereby set apart, and appropriated, for the endowment maintenance, and support of said University and its branches, one million acres of the unappropriated public domain of the State, to be designate…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 16-a TERMS OF OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL OFFICERS

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The Legislature shall fix by law the terms of all offices of the public school system and of the State institutions of higher education, inclusive, and the terms of members of the respective boards, not to exceed six years. (Added Nov. 6, 1928; amended Nov. 4, 1997.)

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 16 COUNTY TAXATION OF CERTAIN UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LANDS

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All land mentioned in Sections 11, 12 and 15 of Article VII, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, now belonging to the University of Texas shall be subject to† taxation for county purposes to the same extent as lands privately owned; provided they shall be rendered for taxa…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 17 FUNDING TO SUPPORT AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION NOT SUPPORTED BY AVAILABLE UNIVERSITY FUND

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(a) In the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1985, and each fiscal year thereafter, there is hereby appropriated out of the first money coming into the state treasury not otherwise appropriated by the constitution $100 million to be used by eligible agencies and institutions of …

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 18 FUNDING TO SUPPORT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM AND UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM; AVAILABLE UNIVERSITY FUND

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(a) The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System may issue bonds and notes not to exceed a total amount of 10 percent of the cost value of the investments and other assets of the permanent university fund (exclusive of real estate) at the time of the issuance thereof, …

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 19 TEXAS TOMORROW FUND

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(a) The Texas tomorrow fund is created as a trust fund dedicated to the prepayment of tuition and fees for higher education as provided by the general laws of this state for the prepaid higher education tuition program. The assets of the fund are held in trust for the benefit of …

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 20 TEXAS UNIVERSITY FUND

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(a) There is established the Texas University Fund for the purpose of providing a dedicated, independent, and equitable source of funding to enable emerging research universities in this state to achieve national prominence as major research universities. (b) The fund consists of…

Tex. Const. art. 7, § 21 FUNDS BENEFITING TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM

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(a) In this section: (1) "Available fund" means the available workforce education fund. (2) "Permanent fund" means the permanent technical institution infrastructure fund. (b) The permanent technical institution infrastructure fund and the available workforce education fund are e…