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.