By: A. Johnson of Harris H.B. No. 1457
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  Relating to the consolidation of certain graduate programs of The
  University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The
  University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subtitle C, Title 3, Subsection 73.102 Education
  Code, is amended by adding subsection (3) to read as follows:
         Sec. 73.102.  PURPOSE; DEGREE PROGRAMS.  (a)  The
  institution and its substations shall be devoted to the diagnosis,
  teaching, study, prevention, and treatment of neoplastic and allied
  diseases.
         (b)  If the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  determines that the role and mission of the institution should be
  changed to include degree-granting authority, the board of regents
  may:
               (1)  prescribe courses and conduct allied health
  professional degree programs related to the purposes of the
  institution described by Subsection (a); [and]
               (2)  jointly prescribe courses and jointly conduct
  graduate programs at the master's and doctoral levels related to
  those purposes with The University of Texas Health Science Center
  at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; and
               (3)  jointly prescribe courses and jointly conduct
  graduate programs with The University of Texas Health Science
  Center at Houston, including educational programs at the master's
  and doctoral levels related to the broad fields encompassed in
  population and public health.
         (c)  The degree programs to be offered under Subsection (b)
  are subject to approval by the coordinating board.
         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, 2021.