By: McDonald H.B. No. 1973 73R5954 KLL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the approval of certain laboratories by the Texas 1-3 Department of Health. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 81.090, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) The department is not required to approve a laboratory 1-8 under Subsection (d) or provide a list of approved laboratories 1-9 under Subsection (e) as long as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement 1-10 Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Section 263a), and subsequent 1-11 amendments, are in effect. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.