1-1 By: Tillery, Lewis of Tarrant, Burnam H.B. No. 504 1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Carona) 1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1999; 1-4 April 26, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-5 Economic Development; May 5, 1999, reported adversely, with 1-6 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1-7 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-8 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 504 By: Carona 1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-10 AN ACT 1-11 relating to the definition of a physician qualified to be an expert 1-12 witness in certain professional malpractice suits. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 14.01, Medical Liability and Insurance 1-15 Improvement Act of Texas (Article 4590i, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-16 Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-17 (g) In this section, "physician" means a person who is: 1-18 (1) licensed to practice medicine in the United 1-19 States; or 1-20 (2) a graduate of a medical school accredited by the 1-21 Liaison Committee on Medical Education. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *