1-1  By:  Nixon                                            S.B. No. 1554
    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 8,
    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 eligibility for training and certification as a
    1-9  medication aide.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 247.026, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   1-13        (e)  Any individual otherwise qualified, who has been
   1-14  employed by a licensed personal care facility for at least 90 days,
   1-15  shall be eligible to be certified as a medication aide following
   1-16  completion of the required course of study and successful
   1-17  completion of any required examination.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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