79R5316 MCK-F

By:  Naishtat                                                     H.B. No. 1492



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to work-related exposure to a reportable disease.                    
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 81.050(b), Health and Safety Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  A person whose occupation or whose volunteer service is 
included in one or more of the following categories may request the 
department or a health authority to order testing of another person 
who may have exposed the person to a reportable disease, including 
HIV infection:
		(1)  a law enforcement officer;                                               
		(2)  a fire fighter;                                                          
		(3)  an emergency medical service employee or 
paramedic; [or]
		(4)  a correctional officer; or                                        
		(5)  an employee, contractor, or volunteer, other than 
a correctional officer, who performs a service in a correctional 
facility as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, or a secure 
correctional facility or secure detention facility as defined by 
Section 51.02, Family Code.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a person exposed on or 
after the effective date of this Act.  A person exposed before the 
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the 
time the exposure occurred, and that law is continued in effect for 
that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.