By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1477
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        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.  Subsection (7), Section 5 of Article 4542a-1,
    1-5  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (7)  "Class C pharmacy license" or "institutional
    1-7  pharmacy license" means a license issued to a pharmacy located in a
    1-8  hospital or other in-patient facility that is licensed under
    1-9  Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or Chapter 6, Texas Mental
   1-10  Health Code (Article 5547-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-11  Statutes), to a hospice inpatient facility that is licensed under
   1-12  Chapter 142, Health and Safety Code, or to a pharmacy located in a
   1-13  hospital maintained or operated by the state.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.