Bill Text: TX SB479 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion in the definition of a medical and dental unit of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the participation of those schools in certain programs and funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB479 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB479-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 479

AN ACT
relating to the inclusion in the definition of a medical and dental
unit of the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
and the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Rio Grande
Valley and the participation of those schools in certain programs
and funding.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.821(4), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(4) "Participating medical school" means each of the
following entities:
(A) the medical school at The University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston;
(B) the medical school at The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center;
(C) the medical school at The University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio;
(D) the medical school at The University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston;
(E) the medical school at the Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock;
(F) the medical school at the Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center at El Paso;
(G) the Baylor College of Medicine;
(H) the college of osteopathic medicine at the
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth;
[and]
(I) the medical school at The Texas A&M
University System Health Science Center;
(J) the medical school at The University of Texas
at Austin; and
(K) the medical school at The University of Texas
Rio Grande Valley.
SECTION 2. Section 61.003(5), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(5) "Medical and dental unit" means The Texas A&M
University System Health Science Center and its component
institutions, agencies, and programs; the Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center; the Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center at El Paso; The University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; The
University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio; The University
of Texas Dental Branch at Houston; The University of Texas M. D.
Anderson Cancer Center; The University of Texas Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences at Houston; The University of Texas Dental
School at San Antonio; The University of Texas Medical School at
Houston; the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at
Austin; the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Rio Grande
Valley [The University of Texas Health Science Center--South Texas
and its component institutions, if established under Subchapter N,
Chapter 74]; the nursing institutions of The Texas A&M University
System and The University of Texas System; and The University of
Texas School of Public Health at Houston; and such other medical or
dental schools as may be established by statute or as provided in
this chapter.
SECTION 3. Section 63.002(c), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) The amount available for distribution from the fund may
be appropriated only for programs that benefit medical research,
health education, or treatment programs at the following
health-related institutions of higher education:
(1) The University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio;
(2) The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer
Center;
(3) The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center;
(4) The University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston;
(5) The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston;
(6) The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Tyler;
(7) The University of Texas Health Science
Center--South Texas and its component institutions, if established
under Subchapter N, Chapter 74;
(8) The Texas A&M University Health Science Center;
(9) the University of North Texas Health Science
Center at Fort Worth;
(10) the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center;
(11) the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
at El Paso; [and]
(12) the Dell Medical School at The University of
Texas at Austin; and
(13) Baylor College of Medicine, if a contract between
Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board is in effect under Section 61.092.
SECTION 4. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the medical schools at The University of Texas at
Austin and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley each shall:
(1) enter into the agreement with the Joint Admission
Medical Program Council required by Section 51.829, Education Code;
and
(2) select an appropriate faculty member to represent
the respective medical school on the council.
(b) The medical schools at The University of Texas at Austin
and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley each shall provide
internships and mentoring under the Joint Admission Medical Program
as appropriate beginning not later than the 2020-2021 academic
year, but are not required before the 2022-2023 academic year to
admit participating students to the medical schools under the
program.
SECTION 5. The Dell Medical School at The University of
Texas at Austin is eligible to receive funding under Subchapter A,
Chapter 63, Education Code, beginning with allocations for the
state fiscal year that begins September 1, 2019.
SECTION 6. 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, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 479 passed the Senate on
April 11, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 2019, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 479 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 14, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135,
Nays 3, two present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
______________________________
Governor