By Haywood S.B. No. 973 74R7101 DD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disclosure of certain information relating to 1-3 certain patients of a physician. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 576.005(c), Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (c) A disclosure under Subsection (b) may not be made if the 1-8 patient, or if the patient is incompetent, the patient's guardian 1-9 of the person, gives contrary written instructions to the treating 1-10 physician. This subsection does not apply if the patient is a 1-11 minor. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.