By Ellis                                              S.B. No. 1266
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the employment of certain physicians by a private
 1-3     medical school.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Medical Practice Act (Article
 1-6     4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Section
 1-7     5.12 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 5.12.  EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIANS BY PRIVATE MEDICAL
 1-9     SCHOOL.  A private medical school accredited by the Liaison
1-10     Committee on Medical  Education, in fulfilling its mission, may:
1-11                 (1)  employ or contract for the services of physicians
1-12     to provide medical services; and
1-13                 (2)  retain all or part of the professional income
1-14     generated by a physician providing medical services under
1-15     Subdivision (1).
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.