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.
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