Journal of the Senate of the State of Texas, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature, Volume 1 Page: 51
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1969
"I recommend that the ceiling on
interest be raised to a level that will
make these bonds marketable, not to
exceed 63 per cent. I submit this as
an emergency recommendation.
"Such legislation, of course, would
not preclude the setting of lower
ceiling rates by local action.
MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCHOOLS
The Coordinating Board for Col-
leges and Universities placed high
among its recommendations the im-
mediate need for at least two new
medical schools and one new dental
school.
It also recommended making agree-
ments with Baylor Medical and Bay-
lor Dental Schools so they could ex-
pand their enrollments with State as-
sistance. The idea of State aid for
private institutions, while new in Tex-
as, has merit when the cost and time
for building new state institutions are
considered.
"I recommend:
1. Creation of a new medical school
at Houston.
2. I recommend creation of a new
dental school in San Antonio.
3. I recommend creation of a new
medical school to serve West Texas
under the administrative control of
and located at Texas Technological
College in Lubbock which could be
developed in partnership with medical
centers in Amarillo, Midland-Odessa
and Lubbock.
4. I recommend contracts with Bay-
lor Medical at Houston and Baylor
Dental at Dallas for the training of
doctors and dentists in limited num-
bers at public expense.
TEXAS WATER PLAN
"This Legislature is already well
aware of and generally informed
about the broad, ambitious, flexible,'
expensive long-range program to
bring Mississippi River Water to
Texas and otherwise develop and
conserve our surface and underground
water resources.
"You are also aware of the well-
documented estimates that unless this
or some equally effective plan is
adopted and initiated now, some sec-
tions of the State will be short of
water within 10 years, and Texas
will pass from a water surplus to a
water shortage before the year 2000.
"This plan has met with favorable
public reception, partly because it isa tremendous achievement in itself,
partly because of the looming water
famine, and partly because it has
enough built-in flexibility to permit
adjustments to fit developments
through the years.
"However, that possibility does not
affect the clear, urgent need to start
now on basic preliminary steps to
set the Texas Water Plan in motion.
"I request your immediate and con-
tinuing attention to the formulation
and passage of the following mea-
sures:
1. A constitutional amendment pro-
viding a plan for financing the state's
share of costs in a joint local-state-
federal undertaking known as the
Texas Water System to provide for
additional assistance to local water
supply projects.
2. A constitutional amendment to
eliminate the present termination
date of 1982 for the Water Develop-
ment Board's program of financial
assistance; to authorize the Board
to increase the Water Development
Fund under such safeguards as the
Legislature might deem wise, and
otherwise to remove limitations and
restrictions that would make it im-
possible for the Board to function as
the plan requires.
3. A constitutional amendment to
empower the Texas Water Develop-
ment Board to participate with the
Federal government in the design,
construction, operation, maintenance
and management of the Texas Water
System. It should also allow the State
to enter into contracts with various
other agencies and to purchase water
from out-of-state sources, and should
provide other ways to carry out the
multifold negotiations and arrange-
ments necessary to put the System
into operation.
"It might be feasible, and certainly
desirable, to combine these changes
into one amendment and substitute it
for present Sections 49-c and 49-d,
Article III, of the Constitution.
CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION
"At this point, I deem it appropriate
to refer to the report of the Consti-
tutional Revision Commission, which
is in essence a proposed complete sub-
stitute for the present Constitution.
"This was a capable commission
which worked hard and met often
and submitted a somewhat condensed
version with much surplusage elimi-
nated and some obscure provisions51
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. Journal of the Senate of the State of Texas, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature, Volume 1, legislative document, 1969; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145999/m1/51/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.