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. 1-25 * * * * *