1-1     By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 332
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 2001; January 23, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
 1-4     Services; February 5, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 5, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 332                 By:  Moncrief
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the provision of a drug by a physician to certain
1-11     indigent patients.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 158.001, Occupations Code, is amended by
1-14     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-15           (c)  This chapter does not prohibit a physician from
1-16     supplying  to a patient, free of charge, a drug provided to the
1-17     physician by a drug manufacturer for an indigent pharmaceutical
1-18     program if, in the physician's opinion, it is advantageous to the
1-19     patient, in adhering to a course of treatment prescribed by the
1-20     physician, to receive the drug.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-22     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-23     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-24     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-25     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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