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Amend SB 211 as follows:                                                     

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 	bill and renumber the SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
	SECTION ___.  Subchapter E, Chapter 351, Occupations Code, is 
amended by adding Section 351.2045 to read as follows:
	Sec. 351.2045.  CONFIDENTIALITY OF INVESTIGATION FILES.  (a)  
The board's investigation files are confidential, privileged, and 
not subject to discovery, subpoena, or any other means of legal 
compulsion for release other than to the board or an employee or 
agent of the board.
	(b)  The board shall share information in investigation 
files, on request, with another state or federal regulatory agency 
or with a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency 
regardless of whether the investigation has been completed.  The 
board is not required to disclose under this subsection information 
that is an attorney-client communication, an attorney work product, 
or other information protected by a privilege recognized by the 
Texas Rules of Civil Procedure or the Texas Rules of Evidence.
	(c)  On the completion of the investigation and before a 
hearing under Section 351.503, the board shall provide to the 
license holder, subject to any other privilege or restriction set 
forth by rule, statute, or legal precedent, access to all 
information in the board's possession that the board intends to 
offer into evidence in presenting its case in chief at the contested 
case hearing on the complaint.  The board is not required to 
provide:
		(1)  a board investigative report or memorandum;                       
		(2)  the identity of a nontestifying complainant; or                   
		(3)  attorney-client communications, attorney work 
product, or other materials covered by a privilege recognized by 
the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure or the Texas Rules of Evidence.
	(d)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the board may:                     
		(1)  disclose a complaint to the affected license 
holder; and        
		(2)  provide to a complainant the license holder's 
response to the complaint, if providing the response is considered 
by the board to be necessary to investigate the complaint.
	(e)  This section does not prohibit the board or another 
party in a disciplinary action from offering into evidence in a 
contested case under Chapter 2001, Government Code, a record, 
document, or other information obtained or created during an 
investigation.
	(2)  In SECTION 4 of the bill, following Subsection (c) of 
that section (committee printing page 3, after line 21), insert the 
following:
	(d)  Section 351.2045, Occupations Code, as added by this 
Act, applies to a complaint or investigation pending on the 
effective date of this Act or filed on or after that date.