By: Branch, Turner of Collin H.J.R. No. 79

(Senate Sponsor - Birdwell)

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2013; April 29, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; May 9, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 9, 2013, sent to printer.)

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to eliminate an obsolete requirement for a State Medical Education Board and a State Medical Education Fund.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 50a, Article III, Texas Constitution, is repealed.

SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013. The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment eliminating an obsolete requirement for a State Medical Education Board and a State Medical Education Fund, neither of which is operational."

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