By Van de Putte H.B. No. 3058 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the operation of Class C pharmacies within hospice 1-3 in-patient facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (7), Section 5 of Article 4542a-1, 1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (7) 'Class C pharmacy license' or 'institutional 1-8 pharmacy license' means a license issued to a pharmacy located in a 1-9 hospital or other in-patient facility that is licensed under 1-10 Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or Chapter 6, Texas Mental 1-11 Health Code (Article 5547-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil 1-12 Statutes), to a hospice inpatient facility that is licensed under 1-13 Chapter 142, Health and Safety Code, or to a pharmacy located in a 1-14 hospital maintained or operated by the state. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 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 be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.