1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to complaints filed with the Texas State Board of
 1-3     Podiatric Medical Examiners.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 4573, Revised Statutes,
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The Board shall maintain an information file about each
 1-8     complaint filed with the Board.  If a written complaint is filed
 1-9     with the Board, the Board may provide a copy of the complaint to
1-10     the license holder, unless providing a copy would jeopardize an
1-11     investigation, and, at least quarterly and until final disposition
1-12     of the complaint, shall notify the parties to the complaint of the
1-13     status of the complaint unless the notification would jeopardize an
1-14     undercover investigation.
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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1420 was passed by the House on April
         27, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
         No. 1420 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1420 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor