By:  Black                                            H.B. No. 2865
       73R8531 CAG-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the continuation of the Board of Vocational Nurse
    1-3  Examiners and to the regulation of vocational nurses.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 5, Chapter 118, Acts of the 52nd
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1951 (Article 4528c, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subsection (p) and adding
    1-8  Subsections (s), (t), and (u) to read as follows:
    1-9        (p)  The Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners is subject to
   1-10  Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act).  Unless continued
   1-11  in existence as provided by that chapter, the board is abolished
   1-12  and this Act expires September 1, 2005 <1993>.
   1-13        (s)  The Board by rule shall develop a system for monitoring
   1-14  licensees' compliance with the requirements of this Act.
   1-15        (t)  The Board by rule shall publish a roster of licensees.
   1-16        (u)  The Board shall develop and adopt procedures governing
   1-17  the investigations of a complaint filed with the Board.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.