1-1 By: Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2914 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999; 1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 Services; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to notice of the drug testing policy followed by a 1-9 convalescent or nursing home or a home and community support 1-10 services agency. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety 1-13 Code, is amended by adding Section 142.007 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 142.007. NOTICE OF DRUG TESTING POLICY. An agency 1-15 licensed under this chapter shall provide to the following persons 1-16 a written statement describing the agency's policy for the drug 1-17 testing of employees who have direct contact with clients: 1-18 (1) each person applying for services from the agency; 1-19 and 1-20 (2) any person requesting the information. 1-21 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 242, Health and Safety 1-22 Code, is amended by adding Section 242.0371 to read as follows: 1-23 Sec. 242.0371. NOTICE OF DRUG TESTING POLICY. An 1-24 institution licensed under this chapter shall provide to the 1-25 following persons a written statement describing the institution's 1-26 policy for the drug testing of employees who have direct contact 1-27 with residents: 1-28 (1) each person applying for services from the 1-29 institution; and 1-30 (2) any person requesting the information. 1-31 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-32 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-37 * * * * *