Perry signs bill that includes $150 million for UTMB - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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The university will use the funds to build anew 200-bes hospital tower adjacent to the existing John Sealy Hospital, restoring bed capacity to 550, as it was prio to Hurricane Ike. In addition, tuition revenue bonds of $5 millionh will go to at Galveston. HB 51 also establishees measures to enhance and maintain the qualitu ofthe state’s designated and emergin g public research universities, creates incentive programs and fundint for higher education institutions, providews higher education fund allocations, and creates an interim committee to studyh the feasibility of tracking specializecd technology research projects.
Of the 62 nationalp research institutions in the threeuniversities — , The and Texas A&Mj University — are in Texas. The Texaw Higher Education Coordinating Board has designatesd seven institutions as emergingresearch universities: the ; the Universitty of Texas campuses in Arlington, Dallas, El Paso and San ; and the University of North Texas. In addition, HB 51 providesd a performance incentive funding mechanism for all ofthe state’s general academic institutions based on the average numbere of degrees awarded annually and an increasd in the average number of degrees awarded with weighted consideration for at-risk students and critical