1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Turner) H.B. No. 1696
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 1995;
1-3 April 25, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to tuberculosis screening for certain employees of the
1-9 Texas Department of Criminal Justice and related managed care
1-10 plans.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 501.059, Government Code, as added by
1-13 Section 2, Chapter 786, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, is
1-14 redesignated as Section 501.060 and amended to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 501.060 <501.059>. TUBERCULOSIS SCREENING. (a) The
1-16 board will establish requirements for tuberculosis screening of
1-17 department employees and volunteers in a manner similar to that
1-18 established for jail employees and volunteers as outlined in
1-19 Subchapter B, Chapter 89, Health and Safety Code.
1-20 (b) The institutional division shall provide tuberculosis
1-21 screening for a person if:
1-22 (1) the person is an employee of:
1-23 (A) the institutional division;
1-24 (B) the correctional managed care plan operated
1-25 by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; or
1-26 (C) the Texas Tech University Health Science
1-27 Center Correctional Managed Care Plan; and
1-28 (2) the person requests the screening.
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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