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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