By: Miles S.B. No. 1251
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to authorizing of joint degrees for certain graduate
programs of 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. Subtitle C, Title 3, Subsection 73.102 Education
Code, is amended by adding subsection (3) to read as follows:
Sec. 73.102. PURPOSE; DEGREE PROGRAMS. (a) The
institution and its substations shall be devoted to the diagnosis,
teaching, study, prevention, and treatment of neoplastic and allied
diseases.
(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 The University of Texas Health Science Center
at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; and
(3) jointly prescribe courses and jointly conduct
graduate programs with The University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston, including educational programs at the master's
and doctoral levels related to the broad fields encompassed in
population and public health.
(c) The degree programs to be offered under Subsection (b)
are subject to approval by the coordinating board.
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.