1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to notice of the drug testing policy followed by a
 1-3     convalescent or nursing home or a home and community support
 1-4     services agency.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety
 1-7     Code, is amended by adding Section 142.007 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 142.007.  NOTICE OF DRUG TESTING POLICY.  An agency
 1-9     licensed under this chapter shall provide to the following persons
1-10     a written statement describing the agency's policy for the drug
1-11     testing of employees who have direct contact with clients:
1-12                 (1)  each person applying for services from the agency;
1-13     and
1-14                 (2)  any person requesting the information.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 242, Health and Safety
1-16     Code, is amended by adding Section 242.0371 to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 242.0371.  NOTICE OF DRUG TESTING POLICY.  An
1-18     institution licensed under this chapter shall provide to the
1-19     following persons a written statement describing the institution's
1-20     policy for the drug testing of employees who have direct contact
1-21     with residents:
1-22                 (1)  each person applying for services from the
1-23     institution; and
1-24                 (2)  any person requesting the information.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2914 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2914 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor