By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1186
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the Texas Natural Death Act
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 672.002 of Chapter 672.  Natural Death
    1-4  Act is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Section 672.002 (8) "Qualified patient" means a patient with
    1-6  a terminal condition that has been diagnosed and certified in
    1-7  writing by the attending physician <and one other physician> who
    1-8  <have> has personally examined the patient.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.