By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 570
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        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.