1-1 By: Harris, Ogden S.B. No. 468
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 10, 1999; February 15, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
1-4 March 4, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 4, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Bernsen
1-7 Amend S.B. 468 as follows:
1-8 On page 1, line 22, strike "10" and substitute "300".
1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-10 AN ACT
1-11 relating to licensing requirements for certain persons providing
1-12 abortion services.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Section 245.004, Health and Safety Code, is
1-15 amended to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 245.004. EXEMPTIONS FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENT. The
1-17 following facilities need not be licensed under this chapter:
1-18 (1) a hospital licensed under Chapter 241 (Texas
1-19 Hospital Licensing Law); or
1-20 (2) the office of a physician licensed under the
1-21 Medical Practice Act (Article 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-22 Statutes), unless 10 or more abortion procedures are performed in
1-23 the office in a year [is used primarily for the purpose of
1-24 performing abortions].
1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-26 SECTION 3. The office of a physician that is exempt from the
1-27 licensing requirement of Chapter 245, Health and Safety Code, under
1-28 Section 245.004, Health and Safety Code, as it existed immediately
1-29 before the effective date of this Act, but that is required to be
1-30 licensed under Section 245.004, Health and Safety Code, as amended
1-31 by this Act, is not required to be licensed before January 1, 2000.
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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