By Alvarado                                           H.B. No. 1420
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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 shall provide a copy of the complaint to
1-10     the license holder and, at least quarterly and until final
1-11     disposition of the complaint, shall notify the parties to the
1-12     complaint of the status of the complaint unless the notification
1-13     would jeopardize an undercover investigation.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Article 4573c, Revised Statutes, is amended by
1-15     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-16           (g)  If, after an investigation of a complaint, the board
1-17     determines that a license holder did not violate this chapter or a
1-18     rule or order adopted under this chapter, the board shall expunge
1-19     from the license holder's file the complaint and any information
1-20     obtained by the board in the investigation of the complaint.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.
 2-4                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 2-5           Amend H.B. 1420 by striking SECTION 2 and renumbering the
 2-6     succeeding SECTION in consecutive numerical sequence.
 2-7                                                                   Maxey