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. _______________________________ _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ 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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor