1-1 By: Rosson S.B. No. 771
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1993; March 10, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
1-4 April 1, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-5 Nays 0; April 1, 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 medical records 100 years old or older.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 5.08, Medical Practice
1-22 Act (Article 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 (d) The prohibitions of this section continue to apply to
1-25 confidential communications or records concerning any patient
1-26 irrespective of when the patient received the services of a
1-27 physician, except for medical records 100 years old or older
1-28 requested for historical research purposes.
1-29 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-37 * * * * *
1-38 Austin,
1-39 Texas
1-40 April 1, 1993
1-41 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-42 President of the Senate
1-43 Sir:
1-44 We, your Committee on Health and Human Services to which was
1-45 referred S.B. No. 771, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-46 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-47 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-48 Zaffirini,
1-49 Chair
1-50 * * * * *
1-51 WITNESSES
1-52 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 771.