By Van de Putte H.B. No. 532
74R3173 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the membership of the HIV/AIDS Interagency Coordinating
1-3 Council.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 85.017(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The council consists of one representative from each of
1-8 the following agencies appointed by the executive director or
1-9 commissioner of each agency:
1-10 (1) the department;
1-11 (2) the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-12 Retardation;
1-13 (3) the Texas Department of Human Services;
1-14 (4) the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse;
1-15 (5) the Texas Rehabilitation Commission;
1-16 (6) the Texas Youth Commission;
1-17 (7) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
1-18 (8) the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission;
1-19 (9) the Texas Commission for the Blind;
1-20 (10) the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hearing
1-21 Impaired;
1-22 (11) the Department of Protective and Regulatory
1-23 Services;
1-24 (12) the Central Education Agency;
2-1 (13) the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners;
2-2 (14) the Board of Nurse Examiners;
2-3 (15) the Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners;
2-4 (16) the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners; <and>
2-5 (17) the Health and Human Services Commission; and
2-6 (18) the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
2-7 SECTION 2. As soon as possible after the effective date of
2-8 this Act, the executive director of the Texas State Board of
2-9 Pharmacy shall appoint that board's representative to the HIV/AIDS
2-10 Interagency Coordinating Council.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.