By Kubiak                                              H.B. No. 241
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 241:
          By Glaze                                           C.S.H.B. No. 241
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the recertification of emergency medical services
    1-3  personnel.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 773.055(a), (b), and (d), Health and
    1-6  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A nonrefundable fee must accompany each application <for
    1-8  examination> for emergency medical services personnel
    1-9  certification.  The fee may not exceed:
   1-10              (1)  $75 for examination for certification <or
   1-11  recertification> of an emergency medical technician-paramedic or
   1-12  emergency medical technician-intermediate; or
   1-13              (2)  $50 for examination for certification <or
   1-14  recertification> of an emergency medical technician or emergency
   1-15  care attendant.
   1-16              (3)  $75 for recertification of an emergency medical
   1-17  technician-paramedic or emergency medical technician-intermediate;
   1-18  or
   1-19              (4)  $50 for recertification of an emergency medical
   1-20  technician or emergency care attendant.
   1-21        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), the department
   1-22  shall notify each examinee of the results of an examination for
   1-23  certification <or recertification> not later than the 30th day
   1-24  after the date on which the examination is administered.
    2-1        (d)  The department shall furnish a person who fails an
    2-2  examination for certification <or recertification> with an analysis
    2-3  of the person's performance on the examination if requested in
    2-4  writing by that person.  The board may adopt rules to allow a
    2-5  person who fails the examination to retake all or part of the
    2-6  examination.  A fee of $25 must accompany each application for
    2-7  reexamination.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  Section 773.059, Health and Safety Code, amended
    2-9  to read as follows:
   2-10        Late Recertification.  A person applying for recertification
   2-11  whose application is received after the expiration date of the
   2-12  person's certificate must pay a late fee of $25 <in addition to the
   2-13  examination fee> (V.A.C. Art. 4447o, Sec. 3.05)
   2-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.