By:  Patterson                                         S.B. No. 981
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the approval of certain laboratories by the Texas
    1-2  Department of Health.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 81.090, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
    1-6        (h)  The department is not required to approve a laboratory
    1-7  under Subsection (d) or provide a list of approved laboratories
    1-8  under Subsection (e) as long as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement
    1-9  Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Section 263a), and subsequent
   1-10  amendments, are in effect.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.