By Janek H.B. No. 925 76R3949 MXM-D 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.