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                                                                  H.B. No. 738




AN ACT

relating to updating citations to Chapter 74, Civil Practice and 
Remedies Code, in Chapter 81, Health and Safety Code.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 81.048(b), Health and Safety Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Notice of a positive test result for a reportable 
disease designated under Subsection (a) shall be given to an 
emergency medical service personnel, peace officer, or fire fighter 
as provided by this section if:
		(1)  the emergency medical service personnel, peace 
officer, or fire fighter delivered a person to a hospital as defined 
by Section 74.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code [1.03, Medical 
Liability and Insurance Improvement Act of Texas (Article 4590i, 
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)];
		(2)  the hospital has knowledge that the person has a 
reportable disease and has medical reason to believe that the 
person had the disease when the person was admitted to the hospital; 
and
		(3)  the emergency medical service personnel, peace 
officer, or fire fighter was exposed to the reportable disease 
during the course of duty.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to an act occurring on or 
after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 738 was passed by the House on March 
23, 2005, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 738 was passed by the Senate on May 
10, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
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          _____________________                                          
 
                 Governor