By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 1745 74R5802 KLL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-18 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-19 1. Amend H.B. 1745 as follows: 1-20 SECTION 2. Immunization against hepatitis B is not required 1-21 until a date specified in rules adopted by the Texas Board of 1-22 Health. The rules may stagger the implementation of the 1-23 requirement for immunization against hepatitis B as added by 1-24 Section 1. 2-1 2. Renumber existing Section 2 of the bill to become Section 3. 2-2 Berlanga