1-1     By:  Carona                                           S.B. No. 1313

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;

 1-4     April 9, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 9, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the designation of licensed dietitians as service

 1-9     providers under the chronically ill and disabled children's

1-10     services program.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 35.004, Health and Safety

1-13     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-14           (b)  The board shall approve physicians, dentists, licensed

1-15     dietitians, facilities, specialty centers, and other providers to

1-16     participate in the program according to the criteria and following

1-17     the procedures prescribed by the board.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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