Amend CSSB 1952 (House Committee Report) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to PART 8 and renumbering 
subsequent ARTICLES in PART 8 accordingly:

ARTICLE ___.  MEDICAL WASTE
	SECTION __.01.  Section 361.560, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended by adding Subdivisions (2) and (4) to read as follows:
		(2)  "Health care related facility" includes:                          
			(A)  ambulatory surgical centers;                                     
			(B)  birthing centers;                                                
			(C)  blood banks and blood drawing centers;                           
			(D)  clinics, including medical, dental, and 
veterinary clinics;    
			(E)  funeral establishments;                                          
			(F)  hospitals;                                                       
			(G)  pharmacies;                                                      
			(H)  professional offices, including the offices 
of physicians, dentists, and acupuncturists; and
			(I)  other facilities included by commission 
rule.                  
		(4)  "Special waste" includes:                                         
			(A)  animal wastes and bedding materials that have 
been exposed to pathogens;
			(B)  bulk blood, bulk blood products, or bulk 
human body fluids;    
			(C)  microbiological waste, including discarded 
cultures, vaccines, disposable culture dishes, and other 
disposable devices used in microbiological laboratories;
			(D)  pathological wastes, including human 
materials removed during surgery, autopsy, or other medical 
procedures; and
			(E)  sharps, including hypodermic needles,  
hypodermic syringes with attached needles, and contaminated items 
including scalpel blades, razor blades, disposable razors, 
disposable scissors used in medical procedures, intravenous 
stylets, rigid introducers, and broken glass.
	SECTION __.02.  Subchapter S, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 
Code, is amended by adding Section 361.562 to read as follows:
	Sec. 361.562.  MOBILE VEHICLES USED FOR TREATMENT OF SPECIAL 
WASTE FROM HEALTH CARE RELATED FACILITIES.  A person who, in 
accordance with commission rules, uses a mobile vehicle to provide 
on-site treatment of special waste from health care related 
facilities may treat, on the site of a hospital registered with the 
commission as a medical waste collection station, special waste:
		(1)  generated at the hospital; or                                     
		(2)  generated at another health care related facility 
and transported to the hospital site by the mobile unit if the 
hospital agrees.
	SECTION __.03.  Not later than December 1, 2003, the Texas 
Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt all rules necessary 
to implement Section 361.562, Health and Safety Code, as added by 
this article.