By:  Jackson                                           H.B. No. 861
       73R2964 SOS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to contractual agreements between the Texas Higher
    1-3  Education Coordinating Board and Texas Chiropractic College.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subchapter O to read as follows:
    1-7       SUBCHAPTER O.  CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE
    1-8        Sec. 61.771.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
    1-9              (1)  "Texas resident" means a person entitled to pay
   1-10  resident tuition under Subchapter B, Chapter 54, of this code.
   1-11              (2)  "Undergraduate medical student" means a person
   1-12  enrolled at an institution of higher education for a regular
   1-13  schedule of courses in pursuit of a Doctor of Medicine degree,
   1-14  Doctor of Osteopathy degree, or Doctor of Chiropractic degree.
   1-15        Sec. 61.772.  CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE.  (a)
   1-16  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, the board may
   1-17  contract with Texas Chiropractic College for the preparation or
   1-18  instruction of Texas resident undergraduate medical students as
   1-19  doctors of chiropractic.
   1-20        (b)  The board may not contract with Texas Chiropractic
   1-21  College if a public school of chiropractic medicine is established.
   1-22        Sec. 61.773.  ADOPTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF RULES.  (a)  The
   1-23  board may adopt rules to administer this subchapter.
   1-24        (b)  The board shall distribute to each state medical school
    2-1  copies of all rules adopted under this subchapter.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.