1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 297
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 1995; January 24, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; February 15, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; February 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the change of the name of the San Antonio State Chest
1-9 Hospital to the Texas Center for Infectious Disease.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 11.004, Health and Safety
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The department is composed of the board, the
1-14 commissioner, an administrative staff, the Texas Center for
1-15 Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest Hospital>, the South
1-16 Texas Hospital, and other officers and employees necessary to
1-17 perform efficiently its powers and duties.
1-18 SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 13.004, Health
1-19 and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-20 (a) The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-21 Retardation may transfer a mentally ill or mentally retarded person
1-22 who is infected with tuberculosis to the Texas Center for
1-23 Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest Hospital>.
1-24 (c) The cost of maintaining and treating the person at the
1-25 Texas Center for Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest
1-26 Hospital> shall be paid from appropriations to that hospital.
1-27 SECTION 3. Section 13.007, Health and Safety Code, is
1-28 amended to read as follows:
1-29 Sec. 13.007. MEDICAL SERVICES TRUST FUND. The medical
1-30 services trust fund is created as a special account in the general
1-31 revenue fund. Fees and charges collected for physicians' services
1-32 provided at the South Texas Hospital and the Texas Center for
1-33 Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest Hospital> shall be
1-34 deposited to the account.
1-35 SECTION 4. Section 13.008, Health and Safety Code, is
1-36 amended to read as follows:
1-37 Sec. 13.008. USE OF MEDICAL SERVICES TRUST FUND. (a) The
1-38 medical services trust fund shall be used for recruiting and
1-39 retaining medical staff at the South Texas Hospital and the Texas
1-40 Center for Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest Hospital>
1-41 and supplementing their salaries.
1-42 (b) In addition to other authorized uses, the medical
1-43 services trust fund may be used to supplement salaries of nurses
1-44 and other medical personnel at the South Texas Hospital and the
1-45 Texas Center for Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest
1-46 Hospital>.
1-47 SECTION 5. Subdivision (5), Section 13.033, Health and
1-48 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-49 (5) "State chest hospital" means the Texas Center for
1-50 Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest Hospital> and the South
1-51 Texas Hospital.
1-52 SECTION 6. Subsection (a), Section 13.071, Health and Safety
1-53 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-54 (a) In addition to treating tuberculosis, the South Texas
1-55 Hospital and the Texas Center for Infectious Disease <San Antonio
1-56 State Chest Hospital> may operate a pilot program to treat persons
1-57 afflicted with other chronic respiratory diseases.
1-58 SECTION 7. Subsection (a), Section 13.074, Health and Safety
1-59 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-60 (a) The South Texas Hospital and the Texas Center for
1-61 Infectious Disease <San Antonio State Chest Hospital> may treat not
1-62 more than 25 patients at any one time under the pilot program
1-63 unless the treatment of a greater number of patients does not
1-64 conflict with the primary objectives of the tuberculosis control
1-65 program.
1-66 SECTION 8. Subsection (b), Section 553.022, Health and
1-67 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-68 (b) The Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
2-1 Retardation may enter into agreements with the Texas Department of
2-2 Health for use of the excess facilities of the Texas Center for
2-3 Infectious Disease <San Antonio Chest Hospital> in the operation of
2-4 the school.
2-5 SECTION 9. (a) The name of the San Antonio State Chest
2-6 Hospital is changed to the Texas Center for Infectious Disease.
2-7 (b) A reference in law to the San Antonio State Chest
2-8 Hospital is a reference to the Texas Center for Infectious Disease.
2-9 (c) An appropriation for the use and benefit of the San
2-10 Antonio State Chest Hospital is available for the use and benefit
2-11 of the Texas Center for Infectious Disease.
2-12 (d) Before using new stationery or other supplies printed
2-13 with the hospital's name as changed by this Act, the hospital shall
2-14 use all stationery and other supplies that are printed with the
2-15 hospital's former name and that are in its possession on the
2-16 effective date of this Act.
2-17 SECTION 10. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-18 SECTION 11. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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