S.B. No. 1477 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the operation of Class C pharmacies within hospice 1-2 in-patient facilities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (7), Section 5, Texas Pharmacy Act 1-5 (Article 4542a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to 1-6 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 in-patient 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 in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.