85R9616 KKR-F By: Lozano H.B. No. 2608 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to a legislative finding that pharmacists are health care providers. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 551.002, Occupations Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: (d) The legislature finds that pharmacists are health care providers authorized to provide health care services as authorized by the legislature under this subtitle. 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.