Bill Text: TX HB1446 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the supervision required for certain persons who administer rabies vaccinations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Left pending in committee [HB1446 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1446-Introduced.html
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| By: Button | H.B. No. 1446 | |
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| relating to the supervision required for certain persons who | ||
| administer rabies vaccinations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 826.023, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (f), rabies [ |
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| vaccine for animals may be administered only by or under the direct | ||
| supervision of a veterinarian. | ||
| (f) A trained staff member of a municipal or county animal | ||
| shelter may administer rabies vaccine to an animal kept or | ||
| impounded at the animal shelter under the general supervision of a | ||
| veterinarian. For the purposes of this subsection, "animal | ||
| shelter" has the meaning assigned by Section 823.001 and "general | ||
| supervision" has the meaning assigned by Section 801.002, | ||
| Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 801, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 801.3515 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 801.3515. EXCEPTION TO VETERINARIAN-CLIENT-PATIENT | ||
| RELATIONSHIP REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN PERSONS WHO ADMINISTER RABIES | ||
| VACCINE. A person who administers rabies vaccine under the general | ||
| supervision of a veterinarian as provided by Section 826.023(f), | ||
| Health and Safety Code, and the veterinarian who provides that | ||
| supervision are not required to establish a | ||
| veterinarian-client-patient relationship before administering the | ||
| rabies vaccine. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
