1-1  By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 657
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 1995; February 21, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
    1-4  Services; April 20, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
    1-6  April 20, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 657                    By:  Madla
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the authority of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to
   1-11  authorize certain pilot or demonstration projects.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 17, Texas Pharmacy Act (Article 4542a-1,
   1-14  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (v)
   1-15  to read as follows:
   1-16        (v)  The board may approve pilot and demonstration research
   1-17  projects for innovative applications in the practice of pharmacy.
   1-18  The board shall specify the procedures to be followed in applying
   1-19  for approval of such a project.  The approval may include the
   1-20  granting of an exception to rules adopted under this Act.  The
   1-21  board may condition approval of a project on compliance with this
   1-22  subsection and rules adopted under this subsection.  This Act shall
   1-23  not be construed to expand the definition of pharmacy as provided
   1-24  in this Act.  Demonstration projects shall not include therapeutic
   1-25  substitution or substitution of medical devices used in patient
   1-26  care.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-32  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-33  passage, and it is so enacted.
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