By:  Nixon                                            S.B. No. 1554
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the eligibility for training and certification as a
    1-2  medication aide.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 247.026, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  Any individual otherwise qualified, who has been
    1-7  employed by a licensed personal care facility for at least 90 days,
    1-8  shall be eligible to be certified as a medication aide following
    1-9  completion of the required course of study and successful
   1-10  completion of any required examination.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.