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.