S.B. No. 570 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the confidentiality of complaint information in the 1-2 possession of the Health Professions Council. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 4512p, Revised Statutes, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) All complaints, adverse reports, and other complaint 1-7 information regarding the content of a complaint in the possession 1-8 of or received or gathered by the council or its employees or 1-9 agents relating to a person, including a partnership, association, 1-10 corporation, or other entity, initiating a complaint or the 1-11 licensed professional, including a partnership, association, 1-12 corporation, or other entity, being complained against are 1-13 privileged and confidential and are not subject to discovery, 1-14 subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion for their release to 1-15 anyone other than council employees or agents involved in 1-16 collecting complaint information or the specific council member 1-17 agency or board responsible for the regulation of the health 1-18 profession under which the individual or institution being 1-19 complained against is licensed or its employees or agents involved 1-20 in licensee discipline. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.