By Janek                                               H.B. No. 925
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the disclosure of certain information contained in a
 1-3     complaint against a person holding a license issued by a state
 1-4     agency.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
 1-7                 (1)  "License" means a license, certificate,
 1-8     registration, permit, or other authorization, required by statute
 1-9     or state agency rule, that a person must obtain to practice or
1-10     engage in a particular business or occupation in this state.
1-11                 (2)  "Licensing agency" means a board, commission,
1-12     committee, council, department, institution, office, administrative
1-13     agency, or other state agency created by the constitution or a
1-14     statute of this state that issues a license or otherwise regulates
1-15     a person who engages in a particular business or occupation.
1-16           SECTION 2.  DISCLOSURE OF COMPLAINANT.  Unless it would
1-17     jeopardize an investigation, a licensing agency shall notify a
1-18     license holder of the name of a person filing a complaint with the
1-19     agency against that license holder.
1-20           SECTION 3.  EXCEPTION.  The requirement under Section 2 of
1-21     this Act does not apply to the disclosure of the name of a person
1-22     who files a complaint as a member of a professional review body
1-23     engaged in peer review.
1-24           SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September
 2-1     1, 1999, and applies only to a complaint filed on or after that
 2-2     date.  A complaint filed before that date is governed by the law in
 2-3     effect on the date that the complaint was filed, and the former law
 2-4     is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-5           SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
 2-6     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.