1-1 By: Rosson S.B. No. 270 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1993; February 8, 1993, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human 1-4 Services; March 2, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 2, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Zaffirini x 1-9 Ellis x 1-10 Madla x 1-11 Moncrief x 1-12 Nelson x 1-13 Patterson x 1-14 Shelley x 1-15 Truan x 1-16 Wentworth x 1-17 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-18 AN ACT 1-19 relating to the form in which a person may provide a copy, summary, 1-20 or narrative of a patient's medical records. 1-21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-22 SECTION 1. Section 5.08, Medical Practice Act (Article 1-23 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding 1-24 Subsection (n) to read as follows: 1-25 (n) A person who may provide a copy of a record, or a 1-26 summary or narrative of the record, to another under this section 1-27 may provide the copy, summary, or narrative: 1-28 (1) on paper; or 1-29 (2) on microfilm, microfiche, computer hard disk, 1-30 magnetic tape, or optical disk or by means of another appropriate 1-31 medium, including a machine-readable medium, if the person who is 1-32 to provide and the person who is to receive the copy, summary, or 1-33 narrative agree to a form authorized by this subdivision. 1-34 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-40 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-41 * * * * * 1-42 Austin, 1-43 Texas 1-44 March 2, 1993 1-45 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-46 President of the Senate 1-47 Sir: 1-48 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was 1-49 referred S.B. No. 270, have had the same under consideration, and I 1-50 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-51 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-52 Zaffirini, 1-53 Chair 1-54 * * * * * 1-55 WITNESSES 1-56 FOR AGAINST ON 1-57 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-58 Name: Frances Gonzales x 1-59 Representing: 1-60 City: El Paso 1-61 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-62 Name: David Marwitz x 1-63 Representing: Texas Hospital Association 1-64 City: Austin 1-65 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-66 Name: Nancy Sims x 1-67 Representing: Texas Business Group on 1-68 Health 2-1 City: Houston 2-2 -------------------------------------------------------------------