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By:  Janek                                                        S.B. No. 555


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to requirements for certain medical treatment consent 
forms.       
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 74.103, Civil Practice 
and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The panel shall prepare separate lists of those medical 
treatments and surgical procedures that do and do not require 
disclosure and, for those treatments and procedures that do require 
disclosure, shall establish the degree of disclosure required and 
the form in which the disclosure will be made.  Each provision of a 
disclosure form prepared under this subsection must be made 
available in English and Spanish.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Medical Disclosure Panel shall 
provide new forms and revise existing forms according to the 
requirements of Subsection (b), Section 74.103, Civil Practice and 
Remedies Code, as amended by this Act, not later than January 1, 
2006.
	(b)  This Act applies only to those medical treatments and 
surgical procedures determined by the Texas Medical Disclosure 
Panel to require disclosure of the risks and hazards to the patient, 
or a person authorized to consent for the patient, that are 
performed at least 90 days after the date the notice of the adoption 
of the form required to be distributed under Subsection (b), 
Section 74.103, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as amended by 
this Act, is published in the Texas Register.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.