Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1100 amends the Education Code to allow the governing boards of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to establish at each of those institutions a pilot center for the advancement of quality in long-term care. The pilot centers are to identify opportunities for research, education, and outreach programs aimed at improving the quality of care in long-term care facilities and to implement and evaluate such programs. The bill lists specific charges for the centers, including a requirement to serve as training sites for doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, facility administrators, therapists, social workers, and investigators, and it requires each pilot center to establish a multidisciplinary leadership team to coordinate certain activities across the centers. The bill also requires the two governing boards to provide to the legislature a joint report on the pilot centers' activities not later than December 1, 2002.