By:  Yost                                              H.B. No. 846
       73R2442 RWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the testing of persons for certain communicable
    1-3  diseases.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 81.050(b), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A person whose occupation or whose volunteer service is
    1-8  included in one or more of the following categories may request the
    1-9  department or a health authority to order testing of another person
   1-10  who may have exposed the person to a reportable disease, including
   1-11  HIV infection:
   1-12              (1)  a law enforcement officer;
   1-13              (2)  a fire fighter;
   1-14              (3)  an emergency medical service employee or
   1-15  paramedic; <or>
   1-16              (4)  a correctional officer; or
   1-17              (5)  a public school employee.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.