Title ED, Education Code

Sec. 111.38. EMINENT DOMAIN. The board has the power of eminent domain to acquire for the use of the university any land necessary and proper for carrying out its purposes as a state-supported institution of higher education. However, the power of eminent domain is restricted to …

Sec. 111.39. ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF LAND. The board may acquire by purchase, donation, or otherwise, for the use of the University of Houston System or any institution or entity under the governance, control, jurisdiction, and management of the board, any land and other r…

Sec. 111.41. MILITARY TRAINING. (a) Within its authority to contract with the Department of Defense for military training under Section 51.304 of this code, the board may lease armory land and buildings from and to the United States, and may acquire equipment and material necessa…

Sec. 111.42. BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY OUTREACH PROGRAM. (a) The board shall develop and establish a business technology outreach program to assist businesses in this state to make use of technology developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The board shall work wi…

Sec. 111.61. CREATION OF CENTER; LOCATION. The board of regents of the University of Houston shall establish and maintain the Center for Public Policy in the Houston metropolitan area. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3274, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971. Amended by Acts 19…

Sec. 111.62. ADMINISTRATION. The administration of the Center for Public Policy shall be under the direction of the president and board of regents of the University of Houston. The administrative officer of the center shall be appointed by the president with the approval of the b…

Sec. 111.63. ROLE AND SCOPE OF CENTER. The Center for Public Policy shall conduct basic and applied research into urban problems and public policy and make available the results of this research to private groups and public bodies and officials. It may offer consultative and gene…

Sec. 111.64. CORRELATION OF PROGRAMS. In order to correlate the programs offered by the Center for Public Policy and the institute established by The University of Texas System under Subchapter B, Chapter 75, there shall be maintained regular liaison between the center and the in…

Sec. 111.65. RECEIPT AND DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS, PROPERTY, AND SERVICES. In addition to state appropriations, the Center for Public Policy may receive and expend or use funds, property, or services from any source, public or private, under rules established by the president and th…

Sec. 111.71. ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE. The board of regents shall establish an Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 879, ch. 330, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1977.

Sec. 111.72. PURPOSE. The purpose of the institute is to contribute to a more meaningful relationship between education and training and the requirements of the Texas labor force and to a positive labor and industrial relations climate. Added by Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 879, ch. …

Sec. 111.73. ACTIVITIES. The institute may sponsor the following activities: (1) adult education, technical assistance, and informational services for labor, management, and public practitioners concerned with the problems of labor, the labor force, and industrial relations; (2) …

Sec. 111.81. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-CLEAR LAKE. There is established in Harris County, as recommended by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, a coeducational institution of higher education to be known as the University of Houston-Clear Lake. The university…

Sec. 111.82. ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL. The organization and control of the university are vested in the board of regents of the University of Houston. With respect to this university, the board of regents has all the rights, powers, and duties that it has with respect to the orga…

Sec. 111.83. ROLE AND SCOPE. The university shall offer undergraduate and graduate programs. Added by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3348, ch. 1024, art. 2, Sec. 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1971. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 102, Sec. 1, eff. May 16, 1995. Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg…

Sec. 111.84. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) There is established a permanent advisory committee consisting of the president, or a representative designated by him, of each tax-supported junior college and community college now existing or hereafter established in Harris, Galveston, Fort…

Sec. 111.85. AUTHORITY OF COORDINATING BOARD. The university is a general academic teaching institution, and as such it is subject to the authority of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. Added by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3348, ch. 1024, art. 2, Sec. 23, e…

Sec. 111.86. HIGH SCHOOL COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) The university may establish and coordinate a cooperative program with one or more school districts under which high school students enrolled in those districts may be employed by the university to work at the Lyndon B. …

Sec. 111.87. JUNIOR COLLEGE COOPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) The university may establish and coordinate a cooperative program with one or more junior college districts under which junior college students enrolled in those districts may be employed by the university to work at …

Sec. 111.90. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-DOWNTOWN. There is established in the City of Houston a coeducational institution of higher education to be known as the University of Houston-Downtown. This institution shall be located on land currently owned by the University of Houston Syste…

Sec. 111.91. ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL. The organization and control of the institution are vested in the board of regents of the University of Houston System. With respect to this institution the board of regents has all the rights, powers, and duties that it has with respect to …

Sec. 111.92. ROLE AND SCOPE. The institution shall be organized to offer undergraduate and graduate programs subject to the authority of the board of regents of the University of Houston System and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 3…

Sec. 111.93. AUTHORITY OF COORDINATING BOARD. The institution is a general academic teaching institution, and as such it is subject to the authority of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 319, ch. 148, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 2…

Sec. 114.001. CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE. Text of section effective upon agreement to transfer of Texas Chiropractic College (a) The chiropractic college formerly constituting the Texas Chiropractic College, operated as a nonprofit corporation and transferred to the state pursuant to a…

Sec. 114.002. POWERS OF THE BOARD. Text of section effective upon agreement to transfer of Texas Chiropractic College (a) The governing board may: (1) provide for the training and teaching of students seeking to become: (A) chiropractors; or (B) other technicians who provide serv…

Sec. 115.001. PUBLIC UNIVERSITY FOR CENTRAL TEXAS. Text of section effective September 1, 1998, provided that the transfer authorized by section 1 of Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1176 takes effect and the transfer is made to a university system other than The Texas A&M University Sy…

Sec. 115.002. POWERS OF BOARD OF REGENTS. Text of section effective September 1, 1998, provided that the transfer authorized by section 1 of Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1176 takes effect and the transfer is made to a university system other than The Texas A&M University System (a) …

Sec. 130.001. SUPERVISION BY COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. (a) The Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, referred to as the coordinating board, shall exercise general control of the public junior colleges of Texas. (b) The coordinatin…

Sec. 130.0011. PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES; ROLE AND MISSION. Texas public junior colleges shall be two-year institutions primarily serving their local taxing districts and service areas in Texas and offering vocational, technical, and academic courses for certification or associate d…

Sec. 130.002. EXTENT OF STATE AND LOCAL CONTROL. All authority not vested by this chapter or by other laws of the state in the coordinating board or in the Central Education Agency is reserved and retained locally in each of the respective public junior college districts or in th…

Sec. 130.0021. CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY. A public junior college or a public junior college district may donate, exchange, convey, sell, or lease land, improvements, or any other interest in any real property for less than the fair market value of the real property int…

Sec. 130.003. STATE APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES. (a) There shall be appropriated biennially from money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated an amount sufficient to supplement local funds for the proper support, maintenance, operation, and improvement of t…

Sec. 130.0031. TRANSFERS: WHEN MADE. (a) In consultation with the advisory committee established under Section 130.001(b)(5), the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule shall adopt a payment schedule by which money appropriated to junior college districts under this ch…

Sec. 130.00311. METHODS OF INCLUSION OR PARTICIPATION IN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) The following are methods that may be used to be included in or to participate in a junior college district: (1) the registered voters of territory that is not located in a junior college distri…

Sec. 130.0032. TUITION FOR STUDENTS RESIDING OUTSIDE OF DISTRICT. (a) The governing board of a public junior college district may allow a person who resides outside the district and who owns property subject to ad valorem taxation by the district, or a dependent of the person, to…

Sec. 130.0033. PILOT PROJECT: REDUCED TUITION FOR CERTAIN COURSES. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall establish a pilot project to measure the impact of reducing tuition for junior college courses offered at times of low enrollment demand in order to promote …

Sec. 130.0034. TUITION FOR REPEATED COURSES. (a) The governing board of a junior college district may charge a student a higher rate of tuition than the tuition that would otherwise be charged for a course in which the student enrolls if: (1) the student has previously enrolled i…

Sec. 130.0035. PERFORMANCE REPORTS. (a) As soon as practicable after the end of each academic year, a junior college district shall prepare an annual performance report for that academic year. The report shall be prepared in a form that would enable any interested person, includi…

Sec. 130.0036. REPORT ON STUDENT ENROLLMENT STATUS. (a) In the form and manner and at the times required by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, a junior college district shall report to the coordinating board on the enrollment status of students of the junior college d…

Sec. 130.004. AUTHORIZED TYPES OF PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES. (a) By complying with the provisions of the appropriate following sections of this chapter a public junior college and/or district of any one of the following classifications may be established: (1) an independent school d…

Sec. 130.005. CHANGE OF NAME TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) The legislature hereby declares that the purpose of this section is to recognize that junior colleges are in fact comprehensive community colleges which serve their communities not only through university-parallel pr…

Sec. 130.0051. OTHER CHANGE OF NAME BY JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) The board of trustees of a junior college district by resolution may change the name of the district or a college within the district, unless the change would cause the district or college to have the same or sub…

Sec. 130.006. COURSE HELD OUTSIDE DISTRICT. (a) The trustees of an independent school district located in a county contiguous to, but not a part of, a community college district and the governing board of the community college district may enter into a contract providing for the …

Sec. 130.007. ENDOWMENT FUND. (a) The board of trustees of a public junior college may establish an endowment fund outside the state treasury in a depository selected by the board of trustees. (b) The board of trustees may deposit local funds collected by the board to the credit …

Sec. 130.008. COURSES FOR JOINT HIGH SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE CREDIT. (a) Under an agreement with a school district or, in the case of a private high school, with the organization or other person that operates the high school, a public junior college may offer a course in which …

Sec. 130.0081. AGREEMENT WITH JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT. (a) A junior college district may enter into an agreement with any person, including an employer, political subdivision, or other entity, to provide educational services. The agreement must provide for the entity to cover at …