By:  Patterson, J.                                     S.B. No. 983
       73R5544 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the imposition of a fee by the Board of Nurse Examiners
    1-3  to fund the dissemination of certain required information.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 16, Article 4525a, Revised Statutes, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The board shall establish a mandatory publication fee as
    1-8  provided by Section 1, Article 4527, Revised Statutes, to fund the
    1-9  dissemination of information required under this section.  The
   1-10  revenue from the fee may be used only to carry out the board's
   1-11  duties under this section.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 1, Article 4527, Revised Statutes, is
   1-13  amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 1.  The Board of Nurse Examiners shall establish
   1-15  reasonable and necessary fees for the administration of its
   1-16  functions in amounts not to exceed:
   1-17    Admission fee to examination ............................. $200
   1-18    Duplicate or substitute of current certificate ............. 25
   1-19    Duplicate or substitute of permanent certificate ........... 25
   1-20    Duplicate permits .......................................... 15
   1-21    Endorsement with or without examination ................... 150
   1-22    Re-registration ............................................ 50
   1-23    Issuance of a temporary permit under Art. 4523 ............. 25
   1-24    Reactivating from inactive status .......................... 30
    2-1    Accreditation of new schools and programs ................. 150
    2-2    Filing of affidavits in re-change of name .................. 10
    2-3    Verification of records .................................... 50
    2-4    Bad checks ................................................. 25
    2-5    Advanced Nurse Practitioner-initial credentials ............ 50
    2-6    Advanced Nurse Practitioner-renewal of credentials ......... 25
    2-7    Issuance of declaratory order of eligibility for license ... 25
    2-8    Mandatory publication fee .................................. 10
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.