Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2025 amends the Education Code to establish a Border Health Institute in El Paso as a collaboration or consortium of public and private entities to facilitate activities of international, national, regional, or local entities delivering health care or health education to border region residents and conducting research on regional public health issues. The institute initially is composed of The University of Texas at El Paso; Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso; El Paso Community College District; R. E. Thomason General Hospital; El Paso City/County Health District; The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health; El Paso County Medical Society; Paso del Norte Health Foundation; and the Texas Department of Health. It is to be governed by a board consisting of the member institutions' chief executives or presidents or their designees, but participating institutions that are subject to Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board supervision remain subject to that supervision as they participate in the border health institute and its activities.

The act requires the coordinating board to prepare an impact statement on the legislation's implementation for the institute's governing body and for the chairs of the legislative committees with primary jurisdiction over higher education or border health issues.