By:  Uher                                               H.B. No. 50
       73R364 LGF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reports of overdoses of controlled substances to law
    1-3  enforcement authorities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The title of Subchapter E, Chapter 161, Health
    1-6  and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        SUBCHAPTER E.  REPORTS OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS AND CONTROLLED
    1-8                          SUBSTANCE OVERDOSES
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 161.041, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-10  amended to read as follows:
   1-11        Sec. 161.041.  MANDATORY REPORTING.  A physician who attends
   1-12  or treats, or who is requested to attend or treat, a bullet or
   1-13  gunshot wound or an overdose of a controlled substance as that term
   1-14  is defined by Section 481.002, or the administrator,
   1-15  superintendent, or other person in charge of a hospital,
   1-16  sanitorium, or other institution in which a bullet or gunshot
   1-17  wound, or an overdose of a controlled substance as that term is
   1-18  defined by Section 481.002, is attended or treated or in which the
   1-19  attention or treatment is requested shall report the case at once
   1-20  to the law enforcement authority of the municipality or county in
   1-21  which the physician practices or in which the institution is
   1-22  located.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993.
   1-24        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.