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Amend CSSB 643 (Senate committee printing) in SECTION 12 of 
the bill, in added Section 555.026, Health and Safety Code, by 
striking Subsection (d) (page 9, lines 2-6) and substituting the 
following:
	(d)  A patient safety organization that performs an 
independent mortality review shall, to the extent allowed by 
federal law, submit:
		(1)  to the department, the office of independent 
ombudsman, and the commission's office of inspector general a 
report of the findings of the mortality review; and
		(2)  semiannually to the lieutenant governor, the 
speaker of the house of representatives, and the standing 
committees of the senate and house of representatives with primary 
jurisdiction over state developmental centers a report that 
contains:
			(A)  aggregate information regarding the deaths 
for which the patient safety organization performed an independent 
mortality review;
			(B)  trends in the causes of death identified by 
the patient safety organization; and
			(C)  any suggestions for system-wide improvements 
to address conditions that contributed to deaths reviewed by the 
patient safety organization.