1-1     By:  Nelson                                            S.B. No. 131
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 7, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
 1-4     February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     5, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the notice required to be posted at a hospital or
 1-9     nursing home prohibiting the carrying of a handgun by a person
1-10     licensed to carry a concealed handgun.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 411.204, Government Code,
1-13     is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (b)  A hospital licensed under Chapter 241, Health and Safety
1-15     Code, or a nursing home licensed under Chapter 242, Health and
1-16     Safety Code, shall prominently display at each entrance to the
1-17     hospital or nursing home, as appropriate, a sign that complies with
1-18     the requirements of Subsection (c) other than the requirement that
1-19     the sign include on its face the number "51".
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.
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