Supplement: MO SB473 | 2023 | Regular Session | Summary: Introduced

Missouri Senate Bill 473 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Repeal provisions relating to the authority to confer degrees at public institutions of higher education

Status: 2023-03-23 - Second Read and Referred S Education and Workforce Development Committee [SB473 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2023-SB473-Summary_Introduced.html

SB 473 - This act repeals the following provisions of law:

(1) The provision that the University of Missouri shall be the state’s only public research university and the exclusive grantor of research doctorates and first-professional degrees, including dentistry, law, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine (Section 172.280);

(2) The provision that degrees in podiatry and chiropractic and osteopathic medicine may be conferred only by the University of Missouri or by a public institution of higher education in collaboration with the University of Missouri, with the University of Missouri being the degree-granting institution, unless the University of Missouri declines to collaborate with such institution (Section 173.005); and

(3) The provision that degrees in engineering may be conferred only by the University of Missouri or by a public institution of higher education in collaboration with the University of Missouri, with the University of Missouri being the degree-granting institution, unless the University of Missouri declines to collaborate with such institution (Section 174.160).

This act is identical to HB 1189 (2023).

OLIVIA SHANNON