By Davila H.B. No. 2252 74R7591 JMM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the requirement that the toll-free telephone number 1-3 operated by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners be posted in 1-4 a physician's office. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 2.09(s)(3), Medical Practice Act (Article 1-7 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as 1-8 follows: 1-9 (3) The board shall list along with its regular 1-10 telephone number the toll-free telephone number that may be called 1-11 to present a complaint about a health professional if the toll-free 1-12 number is established under other state law. On written request 1-13 the board shall make information available to the general public 1-14 for a reasonable fee to cover expenses and appropriate state 1-15 agencies including a summary of any previous disciplinary orders by 1-16 the board against a specific physician licensed in this state, the 1-17 date of the order, and the current status of the order. The board 1-18 shall establish an eight-hour toll-free telephone number to make 1-19 the information immediately available to any caller if the board is 1-20 not required to establish a toll-free telephone number under other 1-21 state law. The toll-free telephone number required under this 1-22 subdivision must be posted on a sign prominently displayed in the 1-23 place of business of each individual or entity regulated under this 1-24 Act. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.