83R6717 MMC-F
 
  By: Callegari H.B. No. 1046
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the use by certain health care providers of
  electronically readable information from a driver's license or
  personal identification certificate.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 521.126(i), Transportation Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (i)  The prohibition provided by Subsection (b) does not
  apply to:
               (1)  a hospital that accesses, uses, compiles, or
  maintains a database of the information to provide health care
  services to the individual who holds the driver's license,
  commercial driver's license, or personal identification
  certificate; or
               (2)  a physician licensed under Subtitle B, Title 3,
  Occupations Code, or an employee, independent contractor, or agent
  of the physician acting in the course and scope of the employment or
  contractual relationship, who accesses, uses, compiles, or
  maintains a database of the information to provide health care
  services to the individual who holds the driver's license,
  commercial driver's license, or personal identification
  certificate.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.