By: Moncrief S.B. No. 445
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the Board of Public Health.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsections (a),(c),(d), and (i), Section 3,
1-4 Article 4413(504), Revised Statutes, are amended to read as
1-5 follows:
1-6 (a) The board is composed of 12 <six> members appointed by
1-7 the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The
1-8 governor shall annually designate one member to be the chairman and
1-9 one member to be the vice-chairman. The board shall annually elect
1-10 a secretary <presiding officer>.
1-11 (c) Eight <Four> members of the board must have a
1-12 demonstrated interest in the services provided by the department,
1-13 with one physician licensed by the Texas State Board of Medical
1-14 Examiners, one physician licensed by the Texas State Board of
1-15 Medical Examiners who is board-certified in pediatrics, one doctor
1-16 of osteopathy licensed by the Texas State Board of Medical
1-17 Examiners on the basis of the degree Doctor of Osteopathy, one
1-18 hospital administrator, one dentist licensed by the State Board of
1-19 Dental Examiners, one chiropractor licensed by the Texas Board of
1-20 Chiropractic Examiners, one professional nurse recognized as a
1-21 nurse practitioner by the Board of Nurse Examiners, and one
1-22 professional nurse registered by the Board of Nurse Examiners with
1-23 a backgound in public health. Four <and two> members must
2-1 represent the public, with one having a background in finance.
2-2 (d) A person is not eligible for appointment as a member of
2-3 the board if the person or the person's spouse:
2-4 (1) is a person who is employed by or participates in
2-5 the management of a business entity or other organization regulated
2-6 by the department or receiving a substantial amount of money from
2-7 that department;
2-8 (2) owns or controls, directly or indirectly, more
2-9 than a 10 percent interest in a business entity or other
2-10 organization regulated by the department or that receives money
2-11 from the department;
2-12 (3) uses or receives a substantial amount of tangible
2-13 goods, services, or money from the department, other than
2-14 compensation or reimbursement authorized by law for expenses
2-15 incurred as a board member, or as a client or a parent or guardian
2-16 of a client receiving services from the department; <or>
2-17 (4) is an employee, officer, or paid consultant of a
2-18 trade association in a field under the jurisdiction of the
2-19 department; or
2-20 (5) provides services for the Texas Department of
2-21 Health.
2-22 (i) Members of the board serve staggered six-year terms,
2-23 with the terms of four <two> members expiring February 1 of each
2-24 odd-numbered year.
2-25 SECTION 2. Section 4, Article 4413(504), Revised Statutes,
3-1 is amended to read as follows:
3-2 Sec. 4. MEETINGS; QUORUM. (a) The board shall meet at
3-3 least once each quarter <month> and at the call of the chair
3-4 <presiding officer>.
3-5 (b) Eight <Four> members of the board constitute a quorum.
3-6 SECTION 3. The governor shall appoint members to fill the
3-7 vacant positions on the Board of Public Health on or before
3-8 January 1, 1994. The governor shall designate which four members
3-9 of the board shall serve terms expiring February 1, 1995, which
3-10 four shall serve terms expiring February 1, 1997, and which four
3-11 shall serve terms expiring February 1, 1999.
3-12 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-18 passage, and it is so enacted.