81R4250 KEL-F
By: Giddings H.B. No. 519
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment of a school of pharmacy in the city of
Dallas by the University of North Texas System.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 105, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 105.503 to read as follows:
Sec. 105.503. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS SYSTEM SCHOOL OF
PHARMACY. (a) The board may establish and operate a school of
pharmacy in the city of Dallas as a professional school of the
University of North Texas System.
(b) In administering the pharmacy school, the board may
prescribe courses leading to customary degrees offered at other
leading American schools of pharmacy and may award those degrees.
(c) Until the University of North Texas at Dallas has been
administered as a general academic teaching institution for five
years, the board shall administer the school of pharmacy as a
professional school of the system. After that period, the school of
pharmacy shall become a professional school of the University of
North Texas at Dallas. Until the school of pharmacy becomes a
professional school of the University of North Texas at Dallas, the
school of pharmacy is entitled to formula funding as if the school
of pharmacy were a professional school of a general academic
teaching institution.
(d) Before the board establishes a school of pharmacy under
this section, but not later than June 1, 2010, the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board shall conduct a study of the initial
implementation of this section and of the actions the system has
taken or must take to obtain accreditation of the school of
pharmacy. The coordinating board shall deliver a copy of the study
to the board of regents and to the chair of each legislative
standing committee or subcommittee with primary jurisdiction over
higher education. This subsection expires December 31, 2010.
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, 2009.