By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 1314
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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)  The board of regents may prescribe courses and conduct
1-11     allied health professional degree programs related to the purposes
1-12     of the institution described by Subsection (a).  The degree
1-13     programs to be offered are subject to approval by the Texas Higher
1-14     Education Coordinating Board.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.