1-1 By: Hochberg (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 1314 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999; 1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Education; April 23, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to authorizing The University of Texas M. D. Anderson 1-9 Cancer Center to offer certain professional degree programs. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 73.102, Education Code, is amended to 1-12 read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 73.102. PURPOSE; DEGREE PROGRAMS. (a) The institution 1-14 and its substations shall be devoted to the diagnosis, teaching, 1-15 study, prevention, and treatment of neoplastic and allied diseases. 1-16 (b) If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 1-17 determines that the role and mission of the institution should be 1-18 changed to include degree-granting authority, the board of regents 1-19 may prescribe courses and conduct allied health professional degree 1-20 programs related to the purposes of the institution described by 1-21 Subsection (a). The degree programs to be offered are subject to 1-22 approval by the coordinating board. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *