Bill Text: TX HB1457 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-13 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1457 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1457-Comm_Sub.html
87R13300 MM-F | |||
By: A. Johnson of Harris, Parker | H.B. No. 1457 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1457: | |||
By: Muñoz, Jr. | C.S.H.B. No. 1457 |
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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. |