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	Amend HB 14, second reading engrossment, as follows:                         
	(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to 
the bill and renumber the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill as 
appropriate:
	SECTION ____.  Chapter 86, Health and Safety Code, is amended 
by amending the heading of the chapter to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 86. BREAST CANCER AND LUNG CANCER
	SECTION ____.  Chapter 86, Health and Safety Code, is amended 
by adding Subchapter C to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER C. INFORMATION ON ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR LUNG CANCER
	Sec. 86.101.  PURPOSE.  It is the intent of the legislature 
that lung cancer patients have access to a standardized written 
summary, as provided under this subchapter, of medically 
efficacious and viable alternative treatments for lung cancer, 
which may include surgical, radiological, or chemotherapeutic 
treatment or combinations of those treatments.
	Sec. 86.102.  STANDARDIZED WRITTEN SUMMARY.  (a) The 
department shall publish a standardized written summary, in 
language a patient can understand, of the advantages, 
disadvantages, risks, and descriptions of all medically 
efficacious and viable alternatives for the treatment of lung 
cancer.
	(b)  The department shall update the summary annually, if 
necessary, to reflect changes in the treatment of lung cancer.
	(c)  The advisory council shall develop the summary.                    
	Sec. 86.103.  ADVISORY COUNCIL.  (a) The lung cancer 
advisory council is appointed by the executive commissioner of the 
Health and Human Services Commission.
	(b)  The lung cancer advisory council consists of the 
following three members:
		(1)  one member who is a physician active in the 
treatment of lung cancer;
		(2)  one member who is an advocate for lung cancer 
patients; and     
		(3)  one member of the public who is a survivor of lung 
cancer.      
	Sec. 86.104.  DISTRIBUTION OF SUMMARY.  (a) Not later than 
the 90th day after the date the department receives the 
standardized written summary from the advisory council, the 
department shall print and make available to all physicians in the 
state sufficient copies of the summary.
	(b)  A physician may distribute the summary to a patient when 
the physician determines in the physician's professional judgment 
that it is in the best interest of the patient to receive a copy of 
the summary.
	Sec. 86.105.  FUNDING.  (a) The department may not expend 
general revenue funds for the publication or distribution of the 
standardized written summary.
	(b)  The department may provide technical assistance to the 
advisory council to aid in the development of the summary.
	(c)  The department may accept grants, donations of money or 
materials, and other forms of assistance from private and public 
sources to be used solely for the development and distribution of 
the summary.
	(2)  On page 14, between lines 23 and 24, insert the 
following:              
	(c)  The members of the research and prevention programs 
committee must represent the geographic and cultural diversity of 
the state.