By Capelo H.B. No. 2669 76R6051 JMM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to due process requirements for renewal, modification, or 1-3 revocation of medical staff membership and privileges. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 241.101(c), Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The process for considering applications for medical 1-8 staff membership and privileges or the renewal, modification, or 1-9 revocation of medical staff membership and privileges must afford 1-10 each physician, podiatrist, and dentist procedural due process. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.