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Amend CSSB 420 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                       
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Subsection (a), 
Section 74.751, Education Code, between "appropriate" and the 
period (page 1, line 25), insert the following:

, including:                                                           
		(1)  research and training facilities at The University 
of Texas--Pan American and The University of Texas at Brownsville 
that are used to support the health science center; and
		(2)  additional research programs and facilities in the 
Edinburg metropolitan area
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Subsection (b), 
Section 74.751, Education Code (page 1, line 27), strike "Cameron, 
Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy Counties" and substitute "Brooks, 
Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy, and Zapata 
Counties".
	(3)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, immediately following added 
Subsection (b), Section 74.751, Education Code (page 1, between 
lines 29 and 30), insert the following:
	(c)  The board of regents shall require that courses for the 
first two years of a degree program preparing students for 
licensure as physicians that is offered by the health science 
center be held at The University of Texas at Brownsville.  Other 
courses for the program must be held at the main campus of the 
health science center except as otherwise necessary to operate the 
program.
	(4)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Subsection (a), 
Section 74.754, Education Code, between "region" and "to 
participate" (page 1, line 46), insert ", including The University 
of Texas--Pan American and The University of Texas at 
Brownsville,".