By Van de Putte                                       H.B. No. 1505
       74R5574 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to
    1-3  inspect certain facilities and to file a complaint resulting from
    1-4  the inspection.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Sections 18(a) and (i), Texas Pharmacy Act
    1-7  (Article 4542a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), are amended to
    1-8  read as follows:
    1-9        (a)  In this section, "facility" means:
   1-10              (1)  a place that has applied for licensing as a
   1-11  pharmacy under this Act;
   1-12              (2)  a place licensed as a pharmacy under this Act;
   1-13  <or>
   1-14              (3)  a place operating as a pharmacy in violation of
   1-15  this Act; or
   1-16              (4)  a place where the practice of pharmacy occurs.
   1-17        (i)  Before a complaint may be filed with the board as a
   1-18  result of a written warning notice that lists specific violations
   1-19  of this Act or a rule adopted by the board issued during an
   1-20  inspection authorized by this section, the licensee must be given a
   1-21  reasonable time, as determined by the board, to comply with this
   1-22  Act or rules adopted by the board as provided by this Act.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.