By: McDonald H.B. No. 2531
73R3855 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to screening tests for the presence of alcohol or drugs in
1-3 newborn children.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Health and Safety Code,
1-6 is amended by adding Section 33.0111 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 33.0111. SCREENING TEST FOR PRESENCE OF ALCOHOL OR
1-8 DRUGS. (a) At the same time the screening tests are conducted
1-9 under Section 33.011, the newborn child shall be subjected to a
1-10 screening test for the presence of alcohol or drugs.
1-11 (b) If the results of a screening test conducted under
1-12 Subsection (a) are found to be abnormal, the department shall refer
1-13 the child to the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, the
1-14 Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, and the
1-15 Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention Services for
1-16 follow-up services.
1-17 SECTION 2. The title of Chapter 33, Health and Safety Code,
1-18 is amended to read as follows:
1-19 CHAPTER 33. NEWBORN SCREENING AND PROGRAM SERVICES FOR
1-20 CERTAIN DISEASES AND CONDITIONS <PHENYLKETONURIA, OTHER>
1-21 <HERITABLE DISEASES, AND HYPOTHYROIDISM>
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.