By: Miles S.B. No. 1251
 
  (A. Johnson of Harris)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing certain joint graduate degree programs
  between 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.  Section 73.102(b), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (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:
                     (A)  The University of Texas Health Science Center
  at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; and
                     (B)  The University of Texas Health Science Center
  at Houston, with respect to graduate programs separately
  established at the health science center and related to the broad
  fields encompassed in population and public health.
         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.