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                                                                  S.B. No. 665




AN ACT

relating to work-related exposure to a reportable disease.                    
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 81.050, 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.                           





______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 665 passed the Senate on 
April 21, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 665 passed the House on 
May 20, 2005, by a non-record vote.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


______________________________ 
            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor