H.B. No. 1745
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring immunization for hepatitis B of certain
    1-3  students.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 2.09(a), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  No person may be admitted to any elementary or secondary
    1-8  school unless he has been fully immunized against diphtheria,
    1-9  rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus, hepatitis B, and poliomyelitis,
   1-10  except as provided in Subsection (c).
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Immunization against hepatitis B is not required
   1-12  until a date specified in rules adopted by the Texas Board of
   1-13  Health.  The rules may stagger the implementation of the
   1-14  requirement for immunization against hepatitis B, as added by
   1-15  Section 1.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  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.