1-1 By: Jackson, Moncrief S.B. No. 1833 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 24, 1999; March 25, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health Services; 1-4 April 8, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1833 By: Lindsay 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to disposing of certain waste created by home health 1-11 providers. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 142, Health and Safety 1-14 Code, is amended by adding Section 142.020 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 142.020. DISPOSAL OF SPECIAL OR MEDICAL WASTE. (a) A 1-16 home and community support services agency that generates special 1-17 or medical waste while providing home health services must dispose 1-18 of the waste in the same manner that the home and community support 1-19 services agency disposes of special or medical waste generated in 1-20 the agency's office location. 1-21 (b) A home and community support services agency shall 1-22 provide both verbal and written instructions to the agency's client 1-23 regarding the proper procedure for disposing of sharps. Sharps 1-24 include hypodermic needles; hypodermic syringes with attached 1-25 needles; scalpel blades; razor blades, disposable razors, and 1-26 disposable scissors used in medical procedures; and intravenous 1-27 stylets and rigid introducers. 1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *