Bill Text: TX HB2867 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB2867 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2867-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB2867 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2867-Comm_Sub.html
By: Metcalf, Oliverson (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) | H.B. No. 2867 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2019; | ||
April 9, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher | ||
Education; April 16, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
April 16, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2867 | By: Creighton |
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relating to the creation of the Sam Houston State University | ||
College of Osteopathic Medicine. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 96, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 96.66 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 96.66. SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF | ||
OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Board" means the board of regents of the Texas | ||
State University System. | ||
(2) "College" means the Sam Houston State University | ||
College of Osteopathic Medicine established under this section. | ||
(3) "University" means Sam Houston State University. | ||
(b) The Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic | ||
Medicine is a college of the university and is under the management | ||
and control of the board with degrees offered under the name and | ||
authority of the university. | ||
(c) The board may prescribe courses leading to customary | ||
degrees and may adopt rules for the operation, control, and | ||
management of the college as necessary for conducting a college of | ||
osteopathic medicine of the first class. | ||
(d) The provost of the university, on behalf of the board, | ||
may execute and carry out an affiliation or coordinating agreement | ||
with any other entity or institution. | ||
(e) The board may solicit, accept, and administer gifts and | ||
grants from any public or private source for the use and benefit of | ||
the college. | ||
(f) In addition to the college's facilities, the board may | ||
enter into agreements under which additional facilities used in the | ||
college's teaching and research programs, including libraries, | ||
auditoriums, research facilities, and medical education buildings, | ||
may be provided by a public or private entity. | ||
(g) A teaching hospital considered suitable by the board may | ||
be provided by a public or private entity. The hospital may not be | ||
constructed, maintained, or operated with state funds. | ||
(h) Notwithstanding any other law, the university is not | ||
entitled to receive any formula funding for the college. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 58.002(a)(1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Resident physician" means a person who is | ||
appointed a resident physician by a school of medicine in The | ||
University of Texas System, the Texas Tech University System, The | ||
Texas A&M University System, or the University of North Texas | ||
System or by the Sam Houston State University College of | ||
Osteopathic Medicine or the Baylor College of Medicine and who: | ||
(A) has received a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor | ||
of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Baylor College of Medicine | ||
or from an approved school of medicine; or | ||
(B) is a citizen of Texas and has received a | ||
Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from | ||
some other school of medicine that is accredited by the Liaison | ||
Committee on Medical Education or by the Bureau of Professional | ||
Education of the American Osteopathic Association. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 59.01(1) and (3), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Medical staff or students" means medical doctors, | ||
doctors of osteopathy, dentists, veterinarians, and podiatrists | ||
appointed to the faculty or professional medical staff employed for | ||
student health services by The University of Texas System, The | ||
Texas A&M University System, the Texas Tech University System, the | ||
Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, or | ||
the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, | ||
either full time or who, although appointed less than full time | ||
(including volunteers), either devote their total professional | ||
service to such appointment or provide services to patients by | ||
assignment from the department chairman; and interns, residents, | ||
fellows, and medical or dental students, veterinary students, and | ||
students of osteopathy participating in a patient-care program in | ||
The University of Texas System, The Texas A&M University System, | ||
the Texas Tech University System, the Sam Houston State University | ||
College of Osteopathic Medicine, or the University of North Texas | ||
Health Science Center at Fort Worth. | ||
(3) "Board" means the board of regents of The | ||
University of Texas System, the board of regents of The Texas A&M | ||
University System, the board of regents of the Texas Tech | ||
University System, the board of regents of the Texas State | ||
University System, or the board of regents of the University of | ||
North Texas. | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 59.02(a) and (c), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Each board may establish a separate self-insurance fund | ||
to pay any damages adjudged in a court of competent jurisdiction or | ||
a settlement of any medical malpractice claim against a member of | ||
the medical staff or students arising from the exercise of the | ||
member's [ |
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of Texas System, The Texas A&M University System, the Texas Tech | ||
University System, the Sam Houston State University College of | ||
Osteopathic Medicine, or the University of North Texas Health | ||
Science Center at Fort Worth. | ||
(c) On the establishment of each fund, transfers to the fund | ||
shall be made in an amount and at such intervals as determined by | ||
the board. Each board may receive and accept any gifts or donations | ||
specified for the purposes of this subchapter and deposit those | ||
gifts or donations into the fund. Each board may invest money | ||
deposited in the fund, and any income received shall be retained in | ||
the fund. The money shall be deposited in any of the approved | ||
depository banks of The University of Texas System, The Texas A&M | ||
University System, the Texas Tech University System, the Texas | ||
State University System, or the University of North Texas Health | ||
Science Center at Fort Worth. All expenditures from the funds shall | ||
be paid pursuant to approval by the boards. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 61.003(5), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(5) "Medical and dental unit" means The Texas A&M | ||
University System Health Science Center and its component | ||
institutions, agencies, and programs; the Texas Tech University | ||
Health Sciences Center; the Texas Tech University Health Sciences | ||
Center at El Paso; the Sam Houston State University College of | ||
Osteopathic Medicine; The University of Texas Medical Branch at | ||
Galveston; The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; The | ||
University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio; The University | ||
of Texas Dental Branch at Houston; The University of Texas M. D. | ||
Anderson Cancer Center; The University of Texas Graduate School of | ||
Biomedical Sciences at Houston; The University of Texas Dental | ||
School at San Antonio; The University of Texas Medical School at | ||
Houston; The University of Texas Health Science Center--South Texas | ||
and its component institutions, if established under Subchapter N, | ||
Chapter 74; the nursing institutions of The Texas A&M University | ||
System and The University of Texas System; and The University of | ||
Texas School of Public Health at Houston; and such other medical or | ||
dental schools as may be established by statute or as provided in | ||
this chapter. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 61.501(1), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(1) "Medical school" means the medical school at The | ||
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, the medical | ||
school at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the | ||
medical school at The University of Texas Health Science Center at | ||
San Antonio, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, | ||
the medical school at The University of Texas at Austin, the medical | ||
school at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the medical | ||
education program of The University of Texas Health Science Center | ||
at Tyler, the medical school at the Texas Tech University Health | ||
Sciences Center, the medical school at the Texas Tech University | ||
Health Sciences Center at El Paso, the Sam Houston State University | ||
College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Baylor College of Medicine, | ||
the college of osteopathic medicine at the University of North | ||
Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, or the medical school at | ||
the Texas A&M University Health Science Center. | ||
SECTION 7. Section 63.002(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The amount available for distribution from the fund may | ||
be appropriated only for programs that benefit medical research, | ||
health education, or treatment programs at the following | ||
health-related institutions of higher education: | ||
(1) The University of Texas Health Science Center at | ||
San Antonio; | ||
(2) The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer | ||
Center; | ||
(3) The University of Texas Southwestern Medical | ||
Center; | ||
(4) The University of Texas Medical Branch at | ||
Galveston; | ||
(5) The University of Texas Health Science Center at | ||
Houston; | ||
(6) The University of Texas Health Science Center at | ||
Tyler; | ||
(7) The University of Texas Health Science | ||
Center--South Texas and its component institutions, if established | ||
under Subchapter N, Chapter 74; | ||
(8) The Texas A&M University Health Science Center; | ||
(9) the University of North Texas Health Science | ||
Center at Fort Worth; | ||
(10) the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; | ||
(11) the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center | ||
at El Paso; [ |
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(12) the Sam Houston State University College of | ||
Osteopathic Medicine; and | ||
(13) Baylor College of Medicine, if a contract between | ||
Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Higher Education | ||
Coordinating Board is in effect under Section 61.092. | ||
SECTION 8. The Sam Houston State University College of | ||
Osteopathic Medicine is eligible to receive funding under | ||
Subchapter A, Chapter 63, Education Code, beginning with | ||
allocations for the state fiscal year that begins September 1, | ||
2019. | ||
SECTION 9. 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, 2019. | ||
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