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.