1-1     By:  Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Madla)                  H.B. No. 1724

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 1997;

 1-3     April 18, 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 11, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the administration and enforcement of the peer

 1-9     assistance program under the Texas Pharmacy Act.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 27A, Texas Pharmacy Act (Article 4542a-1,

1-12     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (k)

1-13     to read as follows:

1-14           (k)  In administering and enforcing this section, the board

1-15     shall adopt rules or minimum criteria that are at least as strict

1-16     as the rules or minimum criteria for the administration or

1-17     enforcement of a peer assistance program adopted by the Texas

1-18     Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse under Chapter 467, Health and

1-19     Safety Code.

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,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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