1-1  By:  Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)    H.B. No. 1745
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 28, 1995;
    1-3  May 1, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
    1-4  and Human Services; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to requiring immunization for hepatitis B of certain
    1-9  students.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 2.09(a), Education Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  No person may be admitted to any elementary or secondary
   1-14  school unless he has been fully immunized against diphtheria,
   1-15  rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus, hepatitis B, and poliomyelitis,
   1-16  except as provided in Subsection (c).
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Immunization against hepatitis B is not required
   1-18  until a date specified in rules adopted by the Texas Board of
   1-19  Health.  The rules may stagger the implementation of the
   1-20  requirement for immunization against hepatitis B, as added by
   1-21  Section 1.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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