1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of a physician qualified to be an expert
1-3 witness in certain professional malpractice suits.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14.01, Medical Liability and Insurance
1-6 Improvement Act of Texas (Article 4590i, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (g) In this section, "physician" means a person who is:
1-10 (1) licensed to practice medicine in the United
1-11 States; or
1-12 (2) a graduate of a medical school accredited by the
1-13 Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the American Osteopathic
1-14 Association.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 504 was passed by the House on April
22, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 504 on May 13, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 504 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 11, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor