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   1-13  repealed.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.