By Wohlgemuth H.B. No. 1537 75R3371 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring parental consent for spinal screening in 1-3 certain schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 37, Health and Safety Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 37.0025 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 37.0025. PARENTAL CONSENT FOR SPINAL SCREENING. (a) A 1-8 public or private school may not screen an individual for abnormal 1-9 spinal curvature without obtaining the written consent of the 1-10 individual's parent, managing conservator, or guardian. 1-11 (b) A parent, managing conservator, or guardian who does not 1-12 provide written consent for a public or private school to perform 1-13 the spinal screening required by Section 37.002(a) must provide a 1-14 substitute professional examination for the screening. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.