By McDonald H.B. No. 1222
74R5401 JMM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of certain nursing practices.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 4525a, Revised Statutes, is amended by
1-5 adding Section 1B to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 1B. (a) A professional nursing educational program or
1-7 a registered nurse who has reasonable cause to believe that the
1-8 ability of a nursing student to perform the duties of the nursing
1-9 profession is or is likely to be impaired by chemical dependency
1-10 shall report in a signed, written report to the board the identity
1-11 of the nursing student and any additional information required by
1-12 the board.
1-13 (b) A registered nurse required to make a report under
1-14 Subsection (a) of this section may report the nursing student to
1-15 the professional nursing educational program in which the student
1-16 is enrolled in lieu of making the report to the board.
1-17 (c) In this section, "professional nursing educational
1-18 program" means an educational program accredited by the board that
1-19 is intended to lead to the initial licensing of a student as a
1-20 registered nurse on the completion of the program by the student.
1-21 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Article 4527d, Revised Statutes,
1-22 is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (a) The board may impose an administrative penalty against a
1-24 person licensed or regulated under this chapter <article> who
2-1 violates this chapter <article> or a rule or order adopted under
2-2 this chapter <article>.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.