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Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31 (2026)

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Sec. 65.31. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES. (a) The board is authorized and directed to govern, operate, support, and maintain each of the component institutions that are now or may hereafter be included in a part of The University of Texas System.

(b) The board is authorized to prescribe for each of the component institutions courses and programs leading to such degrees as are customarily offered in outstanding American universities, and to award all such degrees. It is the intent of the legislature that such degrees shall include baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees, and their equivalents, but no new department, school, or degree-program shall be instituted without the prior approval of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System.

(c) The board has authority to promulgate and enforce such other rules and regulations for the operation, control, and management of the university system and the component institutions thereof as the board may deem either necessary or desirable. The board is specifically authorized and empowered to determine and prescribe the number of students that shall be admitted to any course, department, school, college, degree-program, or institution under its governance.

(d) The board is specifically authorized to make joint appointments in the component institutions under its governance. The salary of any person who receives such joint appointment shall be apportioned to the appointing institutions on the basis of services rendered.

(e) The board is specifically authorized, upon terms and conditions acceptable to it, to accept, retain in depositories of its choosing, and administer gifts, grants, or donations of any kind, from any source, for use by the system or any of the component institutions of the system.

(f) No component institution which is not authorized to offer a four-year undergraduate program shall offer a four-year undergraduate program without the specific authorization of the legislature.

(g) The board by rule may delegate a power or duty of the board to a committee, officer, employee, or other agent of the board.

Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3145, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971. Amended by Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3360, ch. 1024, art. 2, Sec. 37, eff. Sept. 1, 1971; Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 5010, ch. 900, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 29, 1983; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 213, Sec. 1, eff. May 23, 1995.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 9 cases, 1994–2020 · leading case: Univ. of Texas Med. Sch. at Houston v. Than, 874 S.W.2d 839 (Tex. App. 1994).

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Univ. of Texas Med. Sch. at Houston v. Than, 874 S.W.2d 839 (Tex. App. 1994). · cites it 4× “TEX.EDUC.CODE ANN. § 65.31(a) (Vernon 1991).”

Wallace L. Hall, Jr., in His Off. Capacity as a Regent for the Univ. of Texas Sys. v. William H. McRaven, in His Off. Capacity as Chancellor for the Univ. of Texas Sys., 504 S.W.3d 414 (Tex. App. 2016). “” Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31(g). One of the Board’s powers and duties established by the Education Code is the power and duty to “set campus admission standards consistent with the role and mission of thé institution and considering the admission standards of similar institutions…”

United States ex rel. King v. Univ. of Texas Health Sci. Ctr., 907 F. Supp. 2d 846 (S.D. Tex. 2012). “Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31. As part of the UT System, all of UTHSCH’s contracts must be approved by the Board or entered according to its rules.”

Univ. of Texas at Austin// S. O. v. S. O.// Univ. of Texas at Austin/. (Tex. App. 2020). · cites it 5× “Laws 3072 , 3145, 3360 (current version at Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31)); id. at 810 (Supreme Court adopted Foley opinion).”

Univ. of Texas at Austin// S. O. v. S. O.// Univ. of Texas at Austin/. (Tex. App. 2020). · cites it 2× “This section provides, in pertinent part: (a) The board is authorized and directed to govern, operate, support, and maintain each of the component institutions that are now or may hereafter be included in a part of The University of Texas System.”

Texas State Univ. President Denise M. Trauth Texas State Univ. Assistant Vice President for Rsch. & Fed. Relations Michael Blanda Texas State Univ. Registrar Louis E. Jimenez, Jr. & Texas State Univ. Regents William F. Scott, David Montagne, Charlie Amato, Duke Austin, Garry Crain, Veronica Muzquiz Edwards, Dionicio Flores, Nicki Harle, & Alan L. Tinsley, in Their Off. Capacities v. K. E. (Tex. App. 2020). · cites it 2× “at 312 (internal citation omitted) (quoting predecessor statute to Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31). Rather than holding that UT, as a public landowner, had the right to bar certain people from public grounds, this Court held that UT’s relevant authority was implied by the “rules and…”

Virginia Hopkins v. Univ. of Texas Bd. of Regents & Bernard Rapoport, in His Off. Capacity (Tex. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “Tex. Educ. Code Ann. § 65.31 (c) (West 1991).”

Shirley Lenoir, Individually & as Pers. Rep. of the Est. of Shana Lenoir & Christopher McKnight , Individually & as Next Friend of Nayla McKnight v. U.T. Physicians (Tex. App. 2015). “” TEX. EDUC. CODE ANN. § 65.31(a) (West 2002) Section 65.”

— Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31(a) — 5 cases

Univ. of Texas Med. Sch. at Houston v. Than, 874 S.W.2d 839 (Tex. App. 1994). “TEX.EDUC.CODE ANN. § 65.31(a) (Vernon 1991).”

Univ. of Texas at Austin// S. O. v. S. O.// Univ. of Texas at Austin/. (Tex. App. 2020). “Laws 3072 , 3145, 3360 (current version at Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31)); id. at 810 (Supreme Court adopted Foley opinion).”

Texas State Univ. President Denise M. Trauth Texas State Univ. Assistant Vice President for Rsch. & Fed. Relations Michael Blanda Texas State Univ. Registrar Louis E. Jimenez, Jr. & Texas State Univ. Regents William F. Scott, David Montagne, Charlie Amato, Duke Austin, Garry Crain, Veronica Muzquiz Edwards, Dionicio Flores, Nicki Harle, & Alan L. Tinsley, in Their Off. Capacities v. K. E. (Tex. App. 2020). “at 312 (internal citation omitted) (quoting predecessor statute to Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31). Rather than holding that UT, as a public landowner, had the right to bar certain people from public grounds, this Court held that UT’s relevant authority was implied by the “rules and…”

— Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31(b) — 2 cases

Univ. of Texas Med. Sch. at Houston v. Than, 874 S.W.2d 839 (Tex. App. 1994). “TEX.EDUC.CODE ANN. § 65.31(a) (Vernon 1991).”

Univ. of Texas at Austin// S. O. v. S. O.// Univ. of Texas at Austin/. (Tex. App. 2020). “This section provides, in pertinent part: (a) The board is authorized and directed to govern, operate, support, and maintain each of the component institutions that are now or may hereafter be included in a part of The University of Texas System.”

— Tex. Educ. Code § 65.31(g) — 1 case

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