By: Rosson S.B. No. 270 73R1816 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the form in which a person may provide a copy, summary, 1-3 or narrative of a patient's medical records. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5.08, Medical Practice Act (Article 1-6 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding 1-7 Subsection (n) to read as follows: 1-8 (n) A person who may provide a copy of a record, or a 1-9 summary or narrative of the record, to another under this section 1-10 may provide the copy, summary, or narrative: 1-11 (1) on paper; or 1-12 (2) on microfilm, microfiche, computer hard disk, 1-13 magnetic tape, optical disk, or by means of another appropriate 1-14 medium, including a machine-readable medium, if the person who is 1-15 to provide and the person who is to receive the copy, summary, or 1-16 narrative agree to a form authorized by this subdivision. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.