By:  Zaffirini                                        S.C.R. No. 88
                             SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
    1-1        WHEREAS, Accessible and affordable health care is a right
    1-2  that should be enjoyed by all citizens; and
    1-3        WHEREAS, The public institutions of higher education in the
    1-4  State of Texas have an invaluable and integral role in the
    1-5  provision of health and human service care for Texans; and
    1-6        WHEREAS, These institutions can provide much needed insight
    1-7  into new and innovative ideas, advances, procedures, and proposals
    1-8  for more accessible, accountable, affordable, and available health
    1-9  care; now, therefore, be it
   1-10        RESOLVED, That the 73rd Legislature of the State of Texas
   1-11  hereby request that the public institutions of higher education
   1-12  report their current efforts in developing or providing health or
   1-13  human service care to the people of Texas to the Texas Higher
   1-14  Education Coordinating Board; and, be it further
   1-15        RESOLVED, That in carrying out this request, the public
   1-16  institutions of higher education report on new and innovative
   1-17  efforts that should be made to better serve the health care and
   1-18  human service needs of all Texans; and, be it further
   1-19        RESOLVED, That the report include recommendations on the best
   1-20  way to provide high quality health care for all citizens in the
   1-21  most efficient, most accessible, and least costly manner; and, be
   1-22  it further
   1-23        RESOLVED, That the report include the possible use of grants,
    2-1  donations, or federal funds to accomplish the goal of quality
    2-2  health care for all citizens; and, be it further
    2-3        RESOLVED, That the report include recommendations as to the
    2-4  feasibility of utilization of the schools of social work and other
    2-5  human service related programs to provide delivery of human service
    2-6  needs; and, be it further
    2-7        RESOLVED, That the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
    2-8  provide a progress report to the Legislative Health and Human
    2-9  Services Board by September 1, 1994.