1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 600
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 1997; February 19, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; March 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 13, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the collection and use of certain information by cancer
1-9 registries.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 82.008, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-13 (e) The data required to be furnished under this section may
1-14 also be furnished only to cancer registries of hospitals.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 82.009, Health and Safety Code, is
1-16 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-17 (d) Data furnished to a hospital cancer registry under
1-18 Section 82.008(e) is for the confidential use of the hospital
1-19 cancer registry and is subject to Subsection (a).
1-20 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 161.021, Health and
1-21 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-22 (a) Unless prohibited by other law, a person, including a
1-23 hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, rest home, medical society,
1-24 cancer registry, or other organization, may provide interviews,
1-25 reports, statements, memoranda, or other information relating to
1-26 the condition and treatment of any person, to be used in a study to
1-27 reduce morbidity or mortality or to identify persons who may need
1-28 immunization, to:
1-29 (1) the department;
1-30 (2) a person that makes inquiries under immunization
1-31 surveys conducted for the department;
1-32 (3) a medical organization;
1-33 (4) a hospital; [or]
1-34 (5) a hospital committee; or
1-35 (6) a cancer registry.
1-36 SECTION 4. Subsection (a), Section 161.022, Health and
1-37 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-38 (a) The department, a medical organization, a hospital, [or]
1-39 a hospital committee, or a cancer registry may use or publish
1-40 information under Section 161.021 only to advance medical research
1-41 or medical education in the interest of reducing morbidity or
1-42 mortality, except that a summary of the studies may be released by
1-43 those persons for general publication.
1-44 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-50 passage, and it is so enacted.
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