El Paso’s medical school
May 26, 2005
We worked for almost a decade on this project and this money will help us hire the faculty to have the first four-year medical school along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Written by Senator Eliot Shapleigh, Press Release
AUSTIN - Within the final minutes of the deadline for bills to pass out of the Texas Legislature, last night at 11:45 p.m. the Texas Senate appropriated $37 million for the Texas Tech Medical School in El Paso.
“We are real happy,” Senator Shapleigh said about the funding that was dedicated via Floor Amendment 2 to House Bill 10, the supplemental appropriation bill for the 79th Legislative Session. An additional $13 million has been appropriated in Senate Bill 1 for a total of $50 million for completion of the four-year medical school. In addition, Senator Shapleigh secured $6 million for debt service for the two medical school buildings.
“We worked for almost a decade on this project and this money will help us hire the faculty to have the first four-year medical school along the U.S.-Mexico border. Lt. Governor David Dewhurst and key members of our business community have been stalwarts in making this happen.”
The 79th Legislative Session officially ends at midnight on Monday, May 30, 2005, when all bills and appropriation measures must be heard and agreed upon by both chambers.
“We still have several steps to go, but this is very good news for El Paso.”
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