By Delisi H.B. No. 715 74R3221 KLL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to exempting a medical facility or a physician's office or 1-3 clinic from regulation as a tattoo parlor. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 146, Health and Safety Code, as added by 1-6 Chapter 580, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 146.0021 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 146.0021. EXEMPTION. This chapter does not apply to: 1-9 (1) a medical facility licensed under other law; or 1-10 (2) an office or clinic of a person licensed by the 1-11 Texas State Board of Medical Examiners. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.