S.B. No. 957




AN ACT

relating to emergency medication kits maintained for a veterans 
home.       
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 562.108, Occupations 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A Class A or Class C pharmacy may maintain controlled 
substances and dangerous drugs in an emergency medication kit used 
at an institution licensed under Chapter 242 or 252, Health and 
Safety Code.  A United States Department of Veterans Affairs 
pharmacy or another federally operated pharmacy may maintain 
controlled substances and dangerous drugs in an emergency 
medication kit used at an institution that is licensed under 
Chapter 242, Health and Safety Code, and is a veterans home, as 
defined by Section 164.002, Natural Resources Code. The controlled 
substances and dangerous drugs may be used only for the emergency 
medication needs of a resident at the [that] institution.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.

                                                                              




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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 957 passed the Senate on 
April 16, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2003, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 957 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 16, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, 
Nays 1, two present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor