H.B. No. 3011




AN ACT

relating to certain reports, information, or records related to 
certain health care facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 161.0315, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
	(f)  A medical peer review committee or medical committee 
formed by the governing body of a hospital district may compile a 
report, information, or record of the medical and health care 
services provided by a health care facility described by Subsection 
(b) and submit the compilation to the facility's medical peer 
review committee or medical committee.  A report, information, or 
record compiled under this subsection is:
		(1)  confidential;                                                     
		(2)  not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, 
Government Code; and
		(3)  subject to the same confidentiality and disclosure 
requirements to which a report, information, or record of a medical 
peer review committee under Section 160.007, Occupations Code, is 
subject.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 3011 was passed by the House on May 
10, 2003, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in 
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3011 on May 30, 2003, by a non-record 
vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 3011 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0.

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                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor