By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 497
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to qualified patients under the Texas Natural Death Act.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (8), Section 672.002, Health and
    1-4  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5              (8)  "Qualified patient" means a patient with a
    1-6  terminal condition that has been diagnosed and certified in writing
    1-7  by the attending physician <and one other physician> who has <have>
    1-8  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.