By Rodriquez H.B. No. 1093 74R4459 JD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an exception to the open meetings law for certain 1-3 deliberations of the board of managers of a hospital district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 551, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 551.085 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 551.085. HOSPITAL DISTRICT; CLOSED MEETING REGARDING 1-8 PEER REVIEW. This chapter does not require the board of managers 1-9 of a hospital district to conduct an open meeting to deliberate a 1-10 matter when the board is acting as a professional review body and 1-11 is performing or directing medical peer review under the Medical 1-12 Practice Act (Article 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.