TITLE: Relating to the required qualifications for serving as president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and to the prohibition against the award of certain degrees by the center's governing board.

SUMMARY: Relating to the required qualifications for serving as president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and to the prohibition against the award of certain degrees by the center's governing board.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the required qualifications for serving as president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and to the prohibition against the award of certain degrees by the center's governing board. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 105.102(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) The board shall appoint a president of each component institution who serves as chief executive officer of the institution. [The president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth must be a licensed physician who possesses a doctor of osteopathy degree from an accredited college of osteopathic medicine and must have been licensed to practice medicine in a state of the United States for at least five years.] SECTION 2. Section 105.402, Education Code, is repealed. SECTION 3. 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.