By Cuellar of Webb H.B. No. 1159 74R5307 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment and operation of a branch academic 1-3 health center in Webb County as part of The University of Texas 1-4 Health Science Center at San Antonio. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 74, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 74.156 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 74.156. WEBB COUNTY ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER. (a) The 1-9 board of regents may establish an academic health center in Webb 1-10 County to be operated as part of The University of Texas Health 1-11 Science Center at San Antonio. The board may execute and carry 1-12 out affiliation or coordination agreements with any other entity or 1-13 institution to establish or to participate in the establishment or 1-14 operation of the academic health center. 1-15 (b) The academic health center may be used to provide any 1-16 levels of medical or health education the board determines 1-17 appropriate, including undergraduate clinical education, graduate 1-18 education, or residency training programs. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.