By Maxey                                               H.B. No. 164

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to tests for human immunodeficiency virus infection on

 1-3     delivery of a child.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 81.090(c), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  A physician or other person in attendance at a delivery

 1-8     shall:

 1-9                 (1)  take or cause to be taken a sample of blood from

1-10     the mother or from the umbilical cord of the infant within 24 hours

1-11     of delivery; and

1-12                 (2)  submit the sample to a laboratory approved under

1-13     this section for:

1-14                       (A)  a standard serologic test for syphilis

1-15     approved by the board; and

1-16                       (B)  a standard serologic test for HIV infection

1-17     approved by the board unless the physician or other person has

1-18     notice that the test was conducted previously under Subsection

1-19     (a)(2)(B).

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.