Amend SB 781 by striking SECTIONS 3 and 4 and adding new SECTIONS 3, 4, and 5. SECTION 3. Section 3, Art. 3.70-3C, Insurance Code, is amended to add a new subsection (o) to read as follows: (o) For purposes of this subsection, "Hospitalist" means a physician who becomes a physician of record at a hospital for a patient of a participating podiatrist and who may return the care of the patient to that podiatrist at the end of the hospitalization. Any insurer which markets or sponsors a preferred provider benefit plan in its contracts with a podiatrist shall not require the mandatory use of a hospitalist. SECTION 4. Section 18A, Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act (Article 20A.18A, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code) is amended to add a new subsection (k) to read as follows: (k) For purposes of this subsection, "Hospitalist" means a physician who becomes a physician of record at a hospital for a patient of a participating podiatrist and who may return the care of the patient to that podiatrist at the end of the hospitalization. A contract between a health maintenance organization and a podiatrist shall not require the mandatory use of a hospitalist. SECTION 5. The importance of the legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.