1-1     By:  Madla                                            S.B. No. 1132
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Health Services;
 1-4     March 31, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 31, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to due process requirements for renewal, modification, or
 1-9     revocation of medical staff membership and privileges.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 241.101, Health and
1-12     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  The process for considering applications for medical
1-14     staff membership and privileges or the renewal, modification, or
1-15     revocation of medical staff membership and privileges must afford
1-16     each physician, podiatrist, and dentist procedural due process.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.
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