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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