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.