By Maxey                                         H.B. No. 688

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a report by the Texas Department of Health on

 1-3     immunization rates.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  The Texas Department of Health shall

 1-6     evaluate current immunization rates of Texas residents and shall

 1-7     develop a plan to increase immunization rates of Texas residents.

 1-8     The department shall request the assistance of the Texas Medical

 1-9     Association in carrying out this section.

1-10           (b)  The department shall complete the evaluation and plan

1-11     and shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committee for

1-12     health and human services of each house of the legislature.

1-13           (c)  This Act expires when the department submits its report

1-14     to the appropriate standing committees.

1-15           SECTION 2.  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,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.