By:  West, Carona                                      S.B. No. 338

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board contracts

 1-2     with Texas Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 61.772, Education Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 61.772.  CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE AND

 1-7     PARKER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC.  The [(a)  Except as provided by

 1-8     Subsection (b) of this section, the] board may contract with Texas

 1-9     Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic for the

1-10     preparation or instruction of Texas resident undergraduate

1-11     chiropractic students as doctors of chiropractic.

1-12           [(b)  The board may not contract with Texas Chiropractic

1-13     College and Parker College of Chiropractic if a public school of

1-14     chiropractic is established.]

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.