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. 1-24 * * * * *