1-1 By: Goodman (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 956 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997; 1-3 April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the definition of medical waste. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 361.560(3), Health and Safety Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (3) "Medical waste" includes animal waste, bulk blood 1-13 and blood products, microbiological waste, pathological waste, 1-14 sharps, and special waste from health care-related facilities as 1-15 those terms are defined in 25 TAC Section 1.132 (Tex. Dept. of 1-16 Health, Definition, Treatment, and Disposition of Special Waste 1-17 from Health Care-Related Facilities). The term does not include 1-18 medical waste produced on farmland and ranchland as defined in 1-19 Section 252.001(6), Agriculture Code. The term does not include 1-20 artificial, nonhuman materials removed from a patient and requested 1-21 by the patient, including but not limited to orthopedic devices and 1-22 breast implants. 1-23 SECTION 2. 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, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *