1-1     By:  Janek (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)               H.B. No. 2673

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 1997;

 1-3     May 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health

 1-4     and Human Services; May 14, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 14, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the disclosure of health care information by certain

 1-9     providers of health care.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 161.031, Health and Safety Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

1-13           (c)  The term includes a committee, including a joint

1-14     committee, of one or more health care systems if each health care

1-15     system includes one or more of the entities listed in Subsection

1-16     (a).

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.

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