By: Bivins S.B. No. 372
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to retaining the current names of the Texas Department of
1-2 Health and the Texas Board of Health.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. The heading to Article 4413(504), Revised
1-5 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Art. 4413(504). TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF <PUBLIC> HEALTH
1-7 SECTION 2. Sections 1 and 2, Article 4413(504), Revised
1-8 Statutes, are amended to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 1. DEFINITIONS. In this article:
1-10 (1) "Board" means the Texas Board of <Public> Health.
1-11 (2) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
1-12 Commission.
1-13 (3) "Department" means the Texas Department of
1-14 <Public> Health.
1-15 (4) "Director" means the director of the Texas
1-16 Department of <Public> Health.
1-17 Sec. 2. COMPOSITION AND RESPONSIBILITY OF DEPARTMENT. The
1-18 Texas Department of <Public> Health is composed of the board, the
1-19 director, and administrative staff, and other officers and
1-20 employees necessary to efficiently carry out the purposes of this
1-21 article. The department is the state agency with primary
1-22 responsibility for providing health services, including:
1-23 (1) disease prevention;
1-24 (2) health promotion;
2-1 (3) indigent health care;
2-2 (4) certain acute care services; and
2-3 (5) other health-related services as provided by law.
2-4 SECTION 3. Subdivision (3), Section 2, Texas Nursing Home
2-5 Administrators Licensure Act (Article 4442d, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-6 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-7 (3) "nursing home" means any institution or facility
2-8 <now or hereafter> licensed as a "nursing home" or "custodial care
2-9 home" <by the Texas State Department of Public Health> under the
2-10 provisions of Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code;
2-11 SECTION 4. Subsection (c), Section 3, Chapter 65, Acts of
2-12 the 41st Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1929 (Article 8407a,
2-13 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-14 (c) The board shall issue a barber shop permit to an
2-15 applicant who holds a valid class A barber license and whose shop
2-16 meets the minimum health standards for barber shops as promulgated
2-17 by the Texas <State> Department of <Public> Health and all rules
2-18 and regulations of the board.
2-19 SECTION 5. Any transfer to the Department of Public Health
2-20 provided by Chapter 15, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called
2-21 Session, 1991, means a transfer to the entity created by Article
2-22 4413(504), Revised Statutes, and renamed the Texas Department of
2-23 Health by this Act.
2-24 SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-25 SECTION 7. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.