AN ACT
 1-1     relating to due process requirements for renewal, modification, or
 1-2     revocation of medical staff membership and privileges.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 241.101, Health and
 1-5     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  The process for considering applications for medical
 1-7     staff membership and privileges or the renewal, modification, or
 1-8     revocation of medical staff membership and privileges must afford
 1-9     each physician, podiatrist, and dentist procedural due process.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1132 passed the Senate on
         April 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1132 passed the House on
         May 8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 135, Nays 0, one present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor