Amend HB 2824 as follows:
      (1) In SECTION 15 of the bill, strike proposed Subsections
(d) and (e) of Section 241.051, Health and Safety Code (senate
committee printing, page 11 lines 28-47), and substitute the
following:
      (d) All information and materials obtained or compiled by the
department in connection with a complaint and investigation
concerning a hospital are confidential and not subject to
disclosure under Section 552.001 et. seq., Government Code, and not
subject to disclosure, discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal
compulsion for their release to anyone other than the department or
its employees or agents involved in the enforcement action except
that this information may be disclosed to:
            (1) persons involved with the department in the
enforcement action against the hospital;
            (2) the hospital that is the subject of the enforcement
action, or the hospital's authorized representative;
            (3) appropriate state or federal agencies that are
authorized to inspect, survey or investigate hospital services;
            (4) law enforcement agencies; and
            (5) persons engaged in bona fide research, if all
individual-identifying and hospital-identifying information has
been deleted.
      (e) The following information is subject to disclosure in
accordance with Section 552.001 et. seq., Government Code:
            (1) a notice of alleged violation against the hospital,
which notice shall include the provisions of law which the hospital
is alleged to have violated, and a general statement of the nature
of the alleged violation;
            (2) the pleadings in the administrative proceeding; and
            (3) a final decision or order by the department.
      (2) Between existing SECTIONS 15 and 16 of the bill (senate
committee printing, page 11, between 47 and 48), insert the
following new SECTION of the bill, appropriately numbered:
      SECTION ____.  Section 577.013, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
      (d) All information and materials obtained or compiled by the
department in connection with a complaint and investigation
concerning a mental hospital licensed under this chapter are
confidential and not subject to disclosure, discovery, subpoena, or
other means of legal compulsion for their release to anyone other
than the department or its employees or agents involved in the
enforcement action except that this information may be disclosed
to:
            (1) persons involved with the department in the
enforcement action against the licensed mental hospital;
            (2) the licensed mental hospital that is the subject of
the enforcement action, or the licensed mental hospital's
authorized representative;
            (3) appropriate state or federal agencies that are
authorized to inspect, survey or investigate licensed mental
hospital services;
            (4) law enforcement agencies; and
            (5) persons engaged in bona fide research, if all
individual-identifying information and information identifying the
licensed mental hospital has been deleted.
      (e) The following information is subject to disclosure in
accordance with Section 552.001 et seq., Government Code:
            (1) a notice of alleged violation against the licensed
mental hospital, which notice shall include the provisions of law
which the licensed mental hospital is alleged to have violated, and
the nature of the alleged violation;
            (2) the pleadings in the administrative proceeding; and
            (3) a final decision or order by the department.