By Driver, Naishtat H.B. No. 238
74R1812 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to support dogs for persons with disabilities.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 121.003(k), Human Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (k) A support dog <guide> in training shall not be denied
1-7 admittance to any public facility when accompanied by an approved
1-8 trainer who is an agent of an organization generally recognized by
1-9 agencies involved in the rehabilitation of persons with
1-10 disabilities <the blind> as reputable and competent to provide
1-11 training for support <of such> dogs<, and/or their blind handlers>.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. The
1-13 change in law made by Section 121.003(k), Human Resources Code, as
1-14 amended by this Act, applies only to the denial of admission of a
1-15 support dog to a public facility on or after that date. The denial
1-16 of admission of a support dog to a public facility before September
1-17 1, 1995, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before
1-18 the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect
1-19 for that purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.