By Maxey H.B. No. 1696
74R6433 DLF-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to tuberculosis screening for certain employees of the
1-3 Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 501.059, Government Code, as added by
1-6 Section 2, Chapter 786, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, is
1-7 redesignated as Section 501.060 and amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 501.060 <501.059>. TUBERCULOSIS SCREENING. (a) The
1-9 board will establish requirements for tuberculosis screening of
1-10 department employees and volunteers in a manner similar to that
1-11 established for jail employees and volunteers as outlined in
1-12 Subchapter B, Chapter 89, Health and Safety Code.
1-13 (b) The institutional division shall provide tuberculosis
1-14 screening for an employee of the institutional division who
1-15 requests the screening.
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.