By Christian                                          H.B. No. 1076
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to radiologic procedures involving podiatry.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2.05, The Medical Radiologic Technologist
 1-5     Certification Act (Article 4512m, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
 1-6     is amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
 1-7           (l)  Subsection (g) of this section does not apply to a
 1-8     radiologic procedure involving a podiatric x-ray machine designed
 1-9     and manufactured only for use in podiatric radiography.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.