1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing The University of Texas M. D. Anderson 1-3 Cancer Center to offer certain professional degree programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 73.102, Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 73.102. PURPOSE; DEGREE PROGRAMS. (a) The institution 1-8 and its substations shall be devoted to the diagnosis, teaching, 1-9 study, prevention, and treatment of neoplastic and allied diseases. 1-10 (b) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 1-11 determines that the role and mission of the institution should be 1-12 changed to include degree-granting authority, the board of regents 1-13 may prescribe courses and conduct allied health professional degree 1-14 programs related to the purposes of the institution described by 1-15 Subsection (a). The degree programs to be offered are subject to 1-16 approval by the coordinating board. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1314 was passed by the House on March 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1314 was passed by the Senate on May 3, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor