General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 505
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" KILLGORE RESEARCH CENTER
sonal property from The Killgore Foundation and from any other private
organization or individual, to establish, construct, maintain and operate
a regional research center to be known as the Killgore Research Center,
on any land held by the Board of Regents for the use of West Texas State
College.
Sec. 2. All money so received shall be transferred as soon as avail-
able to the West Texas State College Foundation or to any other fund or
foundation chosen by agreement between the donors and the administra-
tion of West Texas State College. The disbursement of all such money
shall be under the supervision of the Business Manager of West Texas
State College, subject to accounting procedures approved by the State
Auditor.
Sec. 3. The maintenance and administration of the research center
shall be the responsibility of the State of Texas acting through the ad-
ministration of West Texas State College, with the advice and assistance
of an advisory council on research selected by the administration and the
donors.
Sec. 4. In order to provide for a permanent research program, the
administration of the college may:
(1) Establish formalized working relationships with established re-
search programs, similar to the relationship already developed between
West Texas State College and The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute;
(2) Integrate the research program now developing in the Graduate
School of West Texas State College with the research program to be es-
tablished at the research center;
(3) Employ Project Directors who are recognized researchers and
who have had experience in applying for and using research grants from
governmental agencies and private foundations;
(4) Assign a person from the administrative staff of the college as
administrator of the research center;
(5) Perform any other acts and make any agreements which will imple-
ment and further the research programs of the research center and of
the college, consistent with the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 5. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any
person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other
provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the
invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act
are declared to be severable.
Sec. 6. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condi-
tion of the Calendar in both Houses create an emergency and an imperative
public necessity that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days in each House be suspended, and this Rule is hereby
suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after
its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the House, April 2, 1963: Yeas 141, Nays 1; the House refused
to concur in Senate amendments, April 10, 1963, and requested ap-
pointment of a Conference Committee to consider differences between
two Houses; and House adopted Conference Committee Report, April
30, 1963: Yeas 147, Nays 0; passed the Senate, with amendments,
April 4, 1963: Yeas 30, Nays 0; at request of House, Senate ap-
pointed a Conference Committee to consider differences between two
Houses; and Senate adopted Conference Committee Report, April 30,
1963: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Filed without the Governor's signature, May 18, 1963.
Effective May 18, 1963.505
Ch. 189
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/841/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.