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. 1-29 * * * * *