H.B. No. 1696
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to tuberculosis screening for certain employees of the
    1-3  Texas Department of Criminal Justice and related managed care
    1-4  plans.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 501.059, Government Code, as added by
    1-7  Section 2, Chapter 786, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, is
    1-8  redesignated as Section 501.060 and amended to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 501.060 <501.059>.  TUBERCULOSIS SCREENING.  (a) The
   1-10  board will establish requirements for tuberculosis screening of
   1-11  department employees and volunteers in a manner similar to that
   1-12  established for jail employees and volunteers as outlined in
   1-13  Subchapter B, Chapter 89, Health and Safety Code.
   1-14        (b)  The institutional division shall provide tuberculosis
   1-15  screening for a person if:
   1-16              (1)  the person is an employee of:
   1-17                    (A)  the institutional division;
   1-18                    (B)  the correctional managed care plan operated
   1-19  by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; or
   1-20                    (C)  the Texas Tech University Health Science
   1-21  Center Correctional Managed Care Plan; and
   1-22              (2)  the person requests the screening.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.