AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the notice required to be posted at a hospital or
 1-2     nursing home prohibiting the carrying of a handgun by a person
 1-3     licensed to carry a concealed handgun.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 411.204, Government Code,
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  A hospital licensed under Chapter 241, Health and Safety
 1-8     Code, or a nursing home licensed under Chapter 242, Health and
 1-9     Safety Code, shall prominently display at each entrance to the
1-10     hospital or nursing home, as appropriate, a sign that complies with
1-11     the requirements of Subsection (c) other than the requirement that
1-12     the sign include on its face the number "51".
1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 131 passed the Senate on
         March 18, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 131 passed the House on
         May 22, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor