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Week of June 12-18, 2002

A public hearing will be held at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas, on June 27, 2002 regarding the proposed establishment of a “Prairie View A&M University Medical School.” The hearing will take place in the Auditorium of the New Science Building, from 1:30p.m. to 4:00p.m. (As required, by law, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will be the official sponsor of the hearing.)

Prior to the 77th Legislative Session, Prairie View A&M University did not offer a doctor of medicine degree program. House Bill 42, sponsored by Representative Ruth Jones McClendon, was passed into law, during the 77th Legislative Session, and amends the Texas Education Code to authorize the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), with the assistance of the Board of Regents (BOR), of the Texas A&M University System, to conduct a feasibility study regarding an affiliation or coordination agreement between the BOR and any institution of higher education to provide the clinical education necessary to support a doctor of medicine degree program at Prairie View A&M University.

House Bill 42 provides that the THECB must complete the feasibility study on or before December 31, 2002.