Bill Text: TX HB208 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to designating the third Wednesday in October as Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [HB208 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB208-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to designating the third Wednesday in October as Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [HB208 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB208-Comm_Sub.html
By: Springer (Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Collin) | H.B. No. 208 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2017; | ||
May 1, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 23, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; | ||
May 23, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 208 | By: Burton |
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relating to designating the third Wednesday in October as Breast | ||
Reconstruction Awareness Day. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 662.065 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 662.065. BREAST RECONSTRUCTION AWARENESS DAY. (a) | ||
The third Wednesday in October of each year is Breast | ||
Reconstruction Awareness Day to promote education, awareness, and | ||
access for women considering postmastectomy breast reconstruction. | ||
(b) Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day shall be regularly | ||
observed by appropriate programs and activities. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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