By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 571
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the administration of medication to a patient under
    1-2  order for mental health services.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 574.102, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 574.102.  APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER.  This subchapter
    1-7  applies only to the application of medication to a patient subject
    1-8  to an order for inpatient mental health services under Section
    1-9  574.034 or 574.035 who is receiving those services in a mental
   1-10  health facility <operated or funded by the department>.
   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.