By: Miles S.B. No. 1251
(A. Johnson of Harris)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.