1-1  By:  Patterson                                         S.B. No. 981
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
    1-4  April 1, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 1, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Zaffirini          x                               
    1-9        Ellis              x                               
   1-10        Madla              x                               
   1-11        Moncrief           x                               
   1-12        Nelson             x                               
   1-13        Patterson          x                               
   1-14        Shelley            x                               
   1-15        Truan              x                               
   1-16        Wentworth          x                               
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to the approval of certain laboratories by the Texas
   1-20  Department of Health.
   1-21        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-22        SECTION 1.  Section 81.090, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-23  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-24        (h)  The department is not required to approve a laboratory
   1-25  under Subsection (d) or provide a list of approved laboratories
   1-26  under Subsection (e) as long as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement
   1-27  Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Section 263a), and subsequent
   1-28  amendments, are in effect.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-34  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-35  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-37                                                         Austin,
   1-38  Texas
   1-39                                                         April 1, 1993
   1-40  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-41  President of the Senate
   1-42  Sir:
   1-43  We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
   1-44  referred S.B. No. 981, have had the same under consideration, and I
   1-45  am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-46  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-47                                                         Zaffirini,
   1-48  Chair
   1-49                               * * * * *
   1-50                               WITNESSES
   1-51                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-52  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-53  Name:  Charles Sweet                                           x
   1-54  Representing:  Tx Dept. of Health
   1-55  City:  Austin
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