1-1 By: West, Carona S.B. No. 338
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1997; February 3, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 April 3, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 3, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board contracts
1-9 with Texas Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 61.772, Education Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 61.772. CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE AND
1-14 PARKER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC. The [(a) Except as provided by
1-15 Subsection (b) of this section, the] board may contract with Texas
1-16 Chiropractic College and Parker College of Chiropractic for the
1-17 preparation or instruction of Texas resident undergraduate
1-18 chiropractic students as doctors of chiropractic.
1-19 [(b) The board may not contract with Texas Chiropractic
1-20 College and Parker College of Chiropractic if a public school of
1-21 chiropractic is established.]
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28 passage, and it is so enacted.
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