AN ACT
1-1 relating to clarifying the name of the College of Dentistry
1-2 component of The Texas A&M University System.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 87, Education Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 SUBCHAPTER I. THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM--COLLEGE
1-7 [SYSTEM--BAYLOR COLLEGE] OF DENTISTRY
1-8 Sec. 87.801. THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM--COLLEGE
1-9 [SYSTEM--BAYLOR COLLEGE] of Dentistry. (a) The Texas A&M
1-10 University System--College [System--Baylor College] of Dentistry is
1-11 a component institution of The Texas A&M University System under
1-12 the management and control of the board of regents of The Texas A&M
1-13 University System.
1-14 (b) The board has the same powers and duties concerning The
1-15 Texas A&M University System--College [System--Baylor College] of
1-16 Dentistry as are conferred on it by law concerning Texas A&M
1-17 University.
1-18 Sec. 87.802. POWERS OF BOARD. (a) The board may:
1-19 (1) provide for the training and teaching of students
1-20 seeking to become:
1-21 (A) dentists;
1-22 (B) dental hygienists; or
1-23 (C) other technicians who provide services
2-1 related to the practice of dentistry;
2-2 (2) prescribe courses leading to degrees customarily
2-3 offered in other leading United States dental schools;
2-4 (3) award the degrees described by Subdivision (2);
2-5 (4) enter into an affiliation or coordinating
2-6 agreement with an entity if reasonably necessary or desirable for
2-7 the operation of a first class school of dentistry;
2-8 (5) make joint appointments in The Texas A&M
2-9 University System--College [System--Baylor College] of Dentistry
2-10 and another institution within The Texas A&M University System; and
2-11 (6) adopt rules for the operation, control, and
2-12 management of the college, as necessary for the operation of a
2-13 first class school of dentistry, including rules governing the
2-14 number of students that may be admitted to any program at the
2-15 college.
2-16 (b) The salary of the person who receives a joint
2-17 appointment under Subsection (a)(5) must be apportioned among the
2-18 institutions to which the individual is appointed on the basis of
2-19 the services rendered.
2-20 SECTION 2. The purpose of this Act is to provide a technical
2-21 correction to the statutory language of Subchapter I, Chapter 87,
2-22 Education Code, by deleting the references to Baylor in the name of
2-23 the College of Dentistry. Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has
2-24 sole discretion regarding the Baylor trademark, requiring consent
2-25 by Baylor University prior to use of the Baylor name. The
3-1 appropriation of the Baylor name by a third party is inconsistent
3-2 with statutory authority regarding trademarks, making it necessary
3-3 to change the name of The Texas A&M University System component to
3-4 conform with applicable law regarding trademarks.
3-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-11 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1028 passed the Senate on
April 17, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1028 passed the House on
May 20, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor