1-1  By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1477
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
    1-4  April 27, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 27, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the operation of Class C pharmacies within hospice
    1-9  in-patient facilities.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (7), Section 5, Texas Pharmacy Act
   1-12  (Article 4542a-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
   1-13  read as follows:
   1-14              (7)  "Class C pharmacy license" or "institutional
   1-15  pharmacy license" means a license issued to a pharmacy located in a
   1-16  hospital or other in-patient facility that is licensed under
   1-17  Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, or Chapter 6, Texas Mental
   1-18  Health Code (Article 5547-1 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-19  Statutes), to a hospice in-patient facility that is licensed under
   1-20  Chapter 142, Health and Safety Code, or to a pharmacy located in a
   1-21  hospital maintained or operated by the state.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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