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.