By: Maxey H.B. No. 1424 73R6072 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 clarifying certain definitions in the Medical Practice Act. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 1.03(6), Medical Practice Act (Article 1-5 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 (6) "Medical peer review committee" or "professional 1-8 review body" means a committee of a health-care entity, the 1-9 governing board of a health-care entity, or the medical staff of a 1-10 health-care entity, provided the committee or medical staff 1-11 operates pursuant to written bylaws that have been approved by the 1-12 policy-making body or the governing board of the health-care entity 1-13 and authorized to evaluate the quality of medical and health-care 1-14 services or the competence of physicians, including those functions 1-15 specified by Section 85.204, Health and Safety Code. Such a 1-16 committee includes the employees and agents of the committee, 1-17 including assistants, investigators, intervenors, attorneys, and 1-18 any other persons or organizations that serve the committee in any 1-19 capacity. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.