Amend CSHB 2085 by inserting the following as a new
SECTION 1.12 of the bill (page 15, between lines 13 and 14) and
renumbering the existing SECTION 1.12 and subsequent SECTIONS of
ARTICLE 1 of the bill appropriately:
      SECTION 1.12.  Subchapter A, Chapter 161, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 161.0065 to read as follows:
      Sec. 161.0065. CHOICE OF VACCINE OR IMMUNIZING AGENT.  (a)
This section applies only to an immunization program under this
subchapter, Section  38.001, Education Code, Section 42.043, Human
Resources Code, or other law under which:
            (1)  the board or the department is authorized or
required to prescribe or recommend the diseases against which
persons shall be immunized or the schedule according to which
persons shall be immunized; or
            (2)  a physician may obtain the vaccine or immunizing
agent from the department. 
      (b)  If more than one manufacturer makes a vaccine or
immunizing agent for a particular disease, a physician who
administers the vaccine or immunizing agent is entitled to select
which manufacturer's vaccine or immunizing agent the physician will
administer. If the physician obtains the vaccine or immunizing
agent from the department, the department on being informed of the
physician's selection shall send the physician the vaccine or
immunizing agent that the physician selected.