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.
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