Perry signs bill that includes $150 million for UTMB - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The university will use the funds to build anew 200-berd hospital tower adjacent to the existing John Sealy restoring bed capacity to 550, as it was prior to Hurricane Ike. In addition, tuition revenue bonds of $5 milliob will go to at HB 51 also establishes measures to enhance and maintain the qualitty ofthe state’s designated and emerging public researcjh universities, creates incentive programs and fundingt for higher education institutions, provides higher education fund and creates an interim committee to studyg the feasibility of tracking specialized technology research projects.
Of the 62 nationalk research institutions inthe nation, threwe universities — , The and Texas A& University — are in Texas. The Texas Higher Educatiobn Coordinating Board has designated seven institutionx as emergingresearch universities: the ; the University of Texas campuses in Arlington, Dallas, El Paso and San ; and the University of North In addition, HB 51 providees a performance incentive funding mechanism for all of the state’sx general academic institutions based on the average numberf of degrees awarded annually and an increase in the averag e number of degrees awarded annually, with weighterd consideration for at-risk students and criticaol fields.