By:  Harris, Moncrief                                  S.B. No. 600

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the collection and use of certain information by cancer

 1-2     registries.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 82.008, Health and Safety Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  The data required to be furnished under this section may

 1-7     also be furnished only to cancer registries of hospitals.

 1-8           SECTION 2.  Section 82.009, Health and Safety Code, is

 1-9     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-10           (d)  Data furnished to a hospital cancer registry under

1-11     Section 82.008(e) is for the confidential use of the hospital

1-12     cancer registry and is subject to Subsection (a).

1-13           SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 161.021, Health and

1-14     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-15           (a)  Unless prohibited by other law, a person, including a

1-16     hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, rest home, medical society,

1-17     cancer registry, or other organization, may provide interviews,

1-18     reports, statements, memoranda, or other information relating to

1-19     the condition and treatment of any person, to be used in a study to

1-20     reduce morbidity or mortality or to identify persons who may need

1-21     immunization, to:

1-22                 (1)  the department;

1-23                 (2)  a person that makes inquiries under immunization

 2-1     surveys conducted for the department;

 2-2                 (3)  a medical organization;

 2-3                 (4)  a hospital; [or]

 2-4                 (5)  a hospital committee; or

 2-5                 (6)  a cancer registry.

 2-6           SECTION 4.  Subsection (a), Section 161.022, Health and

 2-7     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

 2-8           (a)  The department, a medical organization, a hospital, [or]

 2-9     a hospital committee, or a cancer registry may use or publish

2-10     information under Section 161.021 only to advance medical research

2-11     or medical education in the interest of reducing morbidity or

2-12     mortality, except that a summary of the studies may be released by

2-13     those persons for general publication.

2-14           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.