By Ramsay H.B. No. 1231
74R1521 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the screening program for abnormal spinal curvature.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 37.001(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The board, in cooperation with the Central Education
1-7 Agency, shall adopt rules for voluntary <the mandatory> spinal
1-8 screening of children in grades 6 and 9 attending public or private
1-9 schools. The department shall coordinate the spinal screening
1-10 program with any other screening program conducted by the
1-11 department on those children.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 37.002, Health and Safety Code, is
1-13 repealed.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.