Amend CSSB 11 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTIONS of the bill and renumbering the remaining SECTIONS of the
bill as appropriate:
      SECTION __.  Section 161.032, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      Sec. 161.032.  RECORDS AND PROCEEDINGS CONFIDENTIAL.
(a)  The records and proceedings of a medical committee are
confidential and are not subject to court subpoena.
      (b)  Notwithstanding Section 551.002, Government Code, the
following proceedings may be held in a closed meeting following the
procedures prescribed by Subchapter E, Chapter 551, Government
Code:
            (1)  a <A> proceeding of a medical peer review
committee, as defined by Section 151.002, Occupations Code <1.03,
Medical Practice Act (Article 4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes)>, or medical committee;<,> or
            (2)  a meeting of the governing body of a public
hospital, hospital district, <or> hospital authority, or health
maintenance organization of a public hospital, hospital authority,
hospital district, or state-owned teaching hospital at which the
governing body receives records, information, or reports provided
by a medical committee, <or> medical peer review committee, or
compliance officer <is not subject to Chapter 551, Government
Code>.
      (c)  Records, information, or reports of a medical committee,
<or> medical peer review committee, or compliance officer and
records, information, or reports provided by a medical committee,
<or> medical peer review committee, or compliance officer to the
governing body of a public hospital, hospital district, or hospital
authority are not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552,
Government Code.
      (d) <(b)>  The records and proceedings may be used by the
committee and the committee members only in the exercise of proper
committee functions.
      (e)  The records, information, and reports received or
maintained by a compliance officer retain the protection provided
by this section only if the records, information, or reports are
received, created, or maintained in the exercise of a proper
function of the compliance officer as provided by the Office of
Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and
Human Services.
      (f) <(c)>  This section and Subchapter A, Chapter 160,
Occupations Code <Section 5.06, Medical Practice Act (Article
4495b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)>, do not apply to records
made or maintained in the regular course of business by a hospital,
health maintenance organization, medical organization, university
medical center or health science center, hospital district,
hospital authority, or extended care facility.
      SECTION __.  The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 161, Health
and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         SUBCHAPTER D.  MEDICAL COMMITTEES, <AND> MEDICAL
          PEER REVIEW COMMITTEES, AND COMPLIANCE OFFICERS