By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 1913
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2017;
May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 12, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the required qualifications for serving as president of
the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
and to the prohibition against the award of certain degrees by the
center's governing board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 105.102(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The board shall appoint a president of each component
institution who serves as chief executive officer of the
institution. [The president of the University of North Texas
Health Science Center at Fort Worth must be a licensed physician who
possesses a doctor of osteopathy degree from an accredited college
of osteopathic medicine and must have been licensed to practice
medicine in a state of the United States for at least five years.]
SECTION 2. Section 105.402, Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. 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, 2017.
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