By West                                          S.B. No. 338

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board contracts

 1-3     with Texas Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 61.772, Education Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 61.772.  CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE AND

 1-8     PARKER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC.  The [(a)  Except as provided by

 1-9     Subsection (b) of this section, the] board may contract with Texas

1-10     Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic for the

1-11     preparation or instruction of Texas resident undergraduate

1-12     chiropractic students as doctors of chiropractic.

1-13           [(b)  The board may not contract with Texas Chiropractic

1-14     College and Parker College of Chiropractic if a public school of

1-15     chiropractic is established.]

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.