By Shields H.B. No. 146 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the confidentiality of the records and proceedings of a 1-3 medical committee. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 161.032, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsections (d), (e), (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) A medical committee may disclose information that is 1-8 confidential under this section to another medical committee, a law 1-9 enforcement agency or other agency of this state or the federal 1-10 government, a national accreditation organization, or a regulatory 1-11 or licensing agency of another state. 1-12 (e) Disclosure of information under Subsection (d), whether 1-13 made by a member, employee, or agent of the medical committee and 1-14 whether authorized by the committee or not, does not waive the 1-15 privilege of confidentiality under this section. 1-16 (f) Information that is confidential under this section is 1-17 not admissible for any purpose in a judicial proceeding unless the 1-18 privilege of confidentiality is waived in writing executed on 1-19 behalf of the committee and filed with the court. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies to records made and maintained 1-21 and to proceedings occurring before, on, or after the effective 1-22 date of this Act, except that this Act does not apply to records 1-23 and proceedings that were disclosed before the effective date of 2-1 this Act under a valid subpoena issued by a court of competent 2-2 jurisdiction. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.