Bill Text: TX HR487 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Honoring Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center on its achievements.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-03-08 - Reported enrolled [HR487 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR487-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 487 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Students, faculty, and staff of Texas Tech | ||
| University Health Sciences Center are celebrating 54 years as an | ||
| independent university within the Texas Tech University system; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Launched in 1969 as Texas Tech University School of | ||
| Medicine, it was renamed Texas Tech University Health Sciences | ||
| Center in 1979 when it became a full-fledged health research | ||
| institution; throughout its history, TTUHSC has been a leader in | ||
| rural health care for the State of Texas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Today, the university offers top-quality academic | ||
| and clinical education for the next generation of doctors, nurses, | ||
| pharmacists, researchers, and other health care professionals | ||
| while furthering its foundational mission of providing world-class | ||
| health care to the people of West Texas; TTUHSC is focused on | ||
| transforming health care through innovation and collaboration, | ||
| offering solutions that serve as models of care throughout the | ||
| state; the institution encompasses six schools, TTUHSC School of | ||
| Medicine, the School of Nursing, the School of Health Professions, | ||
| the Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, the Graduate School of | ||
| Biomedical Sciences, and the Julia Jones Matthews School of | ||
| Population and Public Health, and it maintains campuses in Abilene, | ||
| Amarillo, Dallas, Lubbock, Midland, and Odessa; and | ||
| WHEREAS, TTUHSC educates students, provides patient care, | ||
| and conducts biomedical and clinical research; the university | ||
| graduates the most health care professionals in the State of Texas, | ||
| and it has been recognized as a pioneer in telehealth; having served | ||
| hundreds of thousands of patients since the first telemedicine | ||
| consult in 1990, the institution continues to lead efforts to | ||
| expand access to care in underserved areas; in addition, TTUHSC is | ||
| nationally recognized for innovative programs, academic | ||
| achievement, and cutting-edge research; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has | ||
| graduated more than 37,000 highly qualified health care | ||
| professionals who are serving patients and driving medical | ||
| discovery in tangible, life-changing ways in Texas and around the | ||
| world; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby honor Texas Tech University Health Sciences | ||
| Center on its achievements and extend to all those associated with | ||
| the institution sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be | ||
| it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for TTUHSC as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
| House of Representatives. | ||
| Tepper | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 487 was adopted by the House on March | ||
| 8, 2023, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
