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. 1-36 * * * * * 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 1-56 -------------------------------------------------------------------