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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the establishment of a pharmacy school at The | 
      
        |  | University of Texas at Tyler. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Chapter 76, Education Code, is amended by adding | 
      
        |  | Section 76.026 to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 76.026.  PHARMACY SCHOOL.  (a)  The board may establish | 
      
        |  | and maintain a school of pharmacy as a professional school of the | 
      
        |  | institution. | 
      
        |  | (b)  The board may prescribe courses leading to customary | 
      
        |  | degrees offered at other leading American schools of pharmacy and | 
      
        |  | may award those degrees. | 
      
        |  | (c)  The board shall provide for the operations and capital | 
      
        |  | expenses of the school to be supported by tuition, gifts, grants, | 
      
        |  | and other institutional or system funds available for that purpose, | 
      
        |  | except that the school is not eligible for funding under the | 
      
        |  | formulas established under Section 61.059 for instruction, | 
      
        |  | operations, or infrastructure. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | 
      
        |  | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | 
      
        |  | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this | 
      
        |  | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | 
      
        |  | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |