By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 372
       73R4379 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to retaining the current names of the Texas Department of
    1-3  Health and the Texas Board of Health.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The heading to Article 4413(504), Revised
    1-6  Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 4413(504).  TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF <PUBLIC> HEALTH
    1-8        SECTION 2.  Sections 1 and 2, Article 4413(504), Revised
    1-9  Statutes, are amended to read as follows:
   1-10        Sec. 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this article:
   1-11              (1)  "Board" means the Texas Board of <Public> Health.
   1-12              (2)  "Commission" means the Health and Human Services
   1-13  Commission.
   1-14              (3)  "Department" means the Texas Department of
   1-15  <Public> Health.
   1-16              (4)  "Director" means the director of the Texas
   1-17  Department of <Public> Health.
   1-18        Sec. 2.  COMPOSITION AND RESPONSIBILITY OF DEPARTMENT.  The
   1-19  Texas Department of <Public> Health is composed of the board, the
   1-20  director, and administrative staff, and other officers and
   1-21  employees necessary to efficiently carry out the purposes of this
   1-22  article.  The department is the state agency with primary
   1-23  responsibility for providing health services, including:
   1-24              (1)  disease prevention;
    2-1              (2)  health promotion;
    2-2              (3)  indigent health care;
    2-3              (4)  certain acute care services; and
    2-4              (5)  other health-related services as provided by law.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Section 2(3), Texas Nursing Home Administrators
    2-6  Licensure Act (Article 4442d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    2-7  amended to read as follows:
    2-8              (3)  "nursing home" means any institution or facility
    2-9  <now or hereafter> licensed as a "nursing home" or "custodial care
   2-10  home" <by the Texas State Department of Public Health> under the
   2-11  provisions of Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code;
   2-12        SECTION 4.  Section 3(c), Chapter 65, Acts of the 41st
   2-13  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1929 (Article 8407a, Vernon's
   2-14  Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   2-15        (c)  The board shall issue a barber shop permit to an
   2-16  applicant who holds a valid class A barber license and whose shop
   2-17  meets the minimum health standards for barber shops as promulgated
   2-18  by the Texas <State> Department of <Public> Health and all rules
   2-19  and regulations of the board.
   2-20        SECTION 5.  Any transfer to the Department of Public Health
   2-21  provided by Chapter 15, Acts of the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called
   2-22  Session, 1991, means a transfer to the entity created by Article
   2-23  4413(504), Revised Statutes, and renamed the Texas Department of
   2-24  Health by this Act.
   2-25        SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-26        SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.