By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1595
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the establishment and operation of a health science
    1-2  center as part of The Texas A&M University Health Science Center.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 86.24 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 86.24.  TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT
    1-7  CORPUS CHRISTI.  (a)  The board of regents may establish a health
    1-8  science center serving Nueces County and the surrounding counties
    1-9  to be operated as part of The Texas A&M University Health Science
   1-10  Center.  The health science center may consist of facilities
   1-11  located throughout the region.  The board may execute and carry out
   1-12  affiliation or coordination agreements with any other entity or
   1-13  institution, including Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi, Texas
   1-14  A&M University--Kingsville, Del Mar College, and Bee County
   1-15  College, to establish or to participate in the establishment or
   1-16  operation of the health science center.
   1-17        (b)  The health science center may be used to provide
   1-18  undergraduate clinical education, graduate education, including
   1-19  residency training programs, or other levels of medical and health
   1-20  education in those counties.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-3  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-4  passage, and it is so enacted.