By Shapleigh S.B. No. 1378 76R7642 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the review of medical training needs in the 1-3 Texas-Mexico border region. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating 1-6 Board shall conduct a review of medical training needs in the 1-7 Texas-Mexico border region. In conducting the review, the board 1-8 shall: 1-9 (1) review current methods of medical training in the 1-10 border region; 1-11 (2) determine the future medical service and needs 1-12 requirements of the region; and 1-13 (3) make recommendations on any action needed to 1-14 address the medical training needs of the region after considering 1-15 the future medical services that will be needed in the region. 1-16 (b) Not later than January 1, 2001, the Texas Higher 1-17 Education Coordinating Board shall report to the governor, 1-18 lieutenant governor, speaker of the house, and 77th Legislature the 1-19 board's findings and recommendations for any necessary legislation. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act expires January 2, 2001. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.