By Capelo H.B. No. 2319 76R6263 KLA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the evaluation of medical and health care services 1-3 provided by the Nueces County Hospital District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 281, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 281.058 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 281.058. MEDICAL PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE. (a) The 1-8 Nueces County Hospital District may form a medical peer review 1-9 committee, as defined by Section 1.03, Medical Practice Act 1-10 (Article 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), to evaluate medical 1-11 and health care services provided by the district. 1-12 (b) The provisions of the Medical Practice Act (Article 1-13 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) that apply to a medical peer 1-14 review committee and to a "health-care entity," as that term is 1-15 defined by that Act, apply to the medical peer review committee 1-16 formed under this section and to the district. 1-17 (c) This section does not impose liability or waive any 1-18 common law, statutory, or other immunity of the Nueces County 1-19 Hospital District. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.