By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 201
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to contractual agreements between the Texas Higher
    1-2  Education Coordinating Board and Texas Chiropractic College and
    1-3  Parker College of Chiropractic.
    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                  AND PARKER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC
    1-9        Sec. 61.771.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
   1-10              (1)  "Texas resident" means a person entitled to pay
   1-11  resident tuition under Subchapter B, Chapter 54, of this code.
   1-12              (2)  "Undergraduate medical student" means a person
   1-13  enrolled at an institution of higher education for a regular
   1-14  schedule of courses in pursuit of a Doctor of Medicine degree,
   1-15  Doctor of Osteopathy degree, or Doctor of Chiropractic degree.
   1-16        Sec. 61.772.  CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE AND
   1-17  PARKER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC. (a)  Except as provided by
   1-18  Subsection (b) of this section, the board may contract with Texas
   1-19  Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic for the
   1-20  preparation or instruction of Texas resident undergraduate medical
   1-21  students as doctors of chiropractic.
   1-22        (b)  The board may not contract with Texas Chiropractic
   1-23  College and Parker College of Chiropractic if a public school of
   1-24  chiropractic medicine is established.
    2-1        Sec. 61.773.  ADOPTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF RULES.  (a)  The
    2-2  board may adopt rules to administer this subchapter.
    2-3        (b)  The board shall distribute to each state medical school
    2-4  copies of all rules adopted under this subchapter.
    2-5        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.