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  By: Nelson  S.B. No. 591
         (In the Senate - Filed February 13, 2007; February 26, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
  Services; March 12, 2007, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 12, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the requirement that licensed physicians provide
  emergency contact information to the Texas Medical Board.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 156, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 156.006 to read as follows:
         Sec. 156.006.  EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION.  (a)  Each
  license holder shall submit to the board telephone numbers, fax
  numbers, and e-mail addresses, if available and as appropriate,
  that the board may use to contact the license holder in an
  emergency.
         (b)  A license holder who receives an initial registration
  permit shall provide the information required under Subsection (a)
  not later than the 30th day after the date the permit is issued.
  Each license holder who applies to renew a registration permit
  shall submit the information required under Subsection (a) with the
  renewal application.
         (c)  A license holder shall report to the board any change in
  the information required under Subsection (a) not later than the
  45th day after the date of the change.
         (d)  The information provided by a license holder under this
  section is confidential and is not subject to disclosure under
  Chapter 552, Government Code.  The board may not disclose
  information provided by a license holder under this section to any
  person and may use the information only to contact a license holder
  in an emergency.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  Not later than December 1, 2007, each person
  who holds a license to practice medicine under Chapter 155,
  Occupations Code, shall submit to the Texas Medical Board telephone
  numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses, if available and as
  appropriate, that the board may use to contact the license holder in
  an emergency.
         (b)  The information provided by a license holder under this
  section is confidential and is not subject to disclosure under
  Chapter 552, Government Code.  The Texas Medical Board may not
  disclose information provided by a license holder under this
  section to any person and may use the information only to contact a
  license holder in an emergency.
         (c)  This section expires September 1, 2008.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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