By Maxey                                        H.B. No. 2389

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the sale of laboratory services to certain persons by

 1-3     the Texas Department of Health.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 12, Health and Safety Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 12.020 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 12.020.  SALE OF LABORATORY SERVICES.  The department

 1-8     may enter into a contract with any person, including a governmental

 1-9     entity, in or outside of this state, for the sale and provision of

1-10     laboratory services.  The department by rule may set and collect

1-11     fees for the sale of laboratory services.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.