1-1  By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 973
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1995; March 8, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services;
    1-4  April 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 18, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the disclosure of certain information relating to
    1-9  certain patients of a physician.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 576.005, Health and
   1-12  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (c)  A disclosure under Subsection (b) may not be made if the
   1-14  patient or, if the patient is incompetent, the patient's guardian
   1-15  of the person gives contrary written instructions to the treating
   1-16  physician.  This subsection does not apply if the patient is a
   1-17  minor.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.
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