Bill Text: TX SB867 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the recipients of opioid antagonists under the opioid antagonist program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB867 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB867-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 867 | ||
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| relating to the recipients of opioid antagonists under the opioid | ||
| antagonist program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 461A.059(c), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The executive commissioner may provide opioid | ||
| antagonists under the program to emergency medical services | ||
| personnel, first responders, public schools, institutions of | ||
| higher education as defined by Section 481.134, community centers, | ||
| and other persons likely to be in a position to respond to an opioid | ||
| overdose. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 867 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 867 passed the House on | ||
| May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 14, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
