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.