By Pitts                                              H.B. No. 2914
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to notifying consumers of a nursing home's or a home and
 1-3     community support services agency's policy regarding drug testing
 1-4     of employees.
 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 an appropriately numbered section to
 1-8     read as follows:
 1-9           Sec. ____.  If a consumer requests information about an
1-10     agency licensed under this chapter or applies for services from an
1-11     agency licensed under this chapter, the information provided by the
1-12     agency shall include a statement briefly describing the agency's
1-13     policy regarding drug testing of employees who have direct contact
1-14     with clients.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 242, Health and Safety
1-16     Code, is amended by adding an appropriately numbered section to
1-17     read as follows:
1-18           Sec. ____.  If a consumer requests information about an
1-19     institution licensed under this chapter or applies for services
1-20     from an institution licensed under this chapter, the information
1-21     provided by the institution shall include a statement briefly
 2-1     describing the institution's policy regarding drug testing of
 2-2     employees who have direct contact with clients.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.