Sec. 142.0035. TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM: PRIORITY RESEARCH AREAS. The technology program may provide support for faculty members to conduct research in areas determined by an advisory panel appointed by the coordinating board. Initial research areas shall include: agriculture, biotechnology, biomedicine, energy, environment, materials science, microelectronics, aerospace, marine science, aquaculture, telecommunications, manufacturing science, environmental issues affecting the Texas-Mexico border region, the reduction of industrial, agricultural, and domestic water use, recycling, and related disciplines. The advisory committee appointed under Section 142.003(b) may add or delete priority research areas as the advisory committee considers warranted.
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 823, Sec. 3.08, eff. June 20, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 621, Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 1989; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 303, Sec. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 876, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 30, 1993; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1500, Sec. 2, eff. June 19, 1999.
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 143.003 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1155 (S.B. 215), Sec. 56, eff. September 1, 2013.
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