1-1  By:  Van de Putte (Senate Sponsor - Madla)            H.B. No. 1507
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the authority of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to
    1-9  authorize certain pilot or demonstration projects.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 17, Texas Pharmacy Act (Article 4542a-1,
   1-12  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (v)
   1-13  to read as follows:
   1-14        (v)  The board may approve pilot and demonstration research
   1-15  projects for innovative applications in the practice of pharmacy.
   1-16  The board shall specify the procedures to be followed in applying
   1-17  for approval of such a project.  The approval may include the
   1-18  granting of an exception to rules adopted under this Act.  The
   1-19  board may condition approval of a project on compliance with this
   1-20  subsection and rules adopted under this subsection.  This
   1-21  subsection shall not be construed to expand the definition of
   1-22  pharmacy as provided in this Act.  Demonstration projects shall not
   1-23  include therapeutic substitution or substitution of medical devices
   1-24  used in patient care.
   1-25        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-30  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-31  passage, and it is so enacted.
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