Amend CSSB 207 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 531.1202, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 531.1202. RECORD OF AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMAL RESOLUTION MEETINGS. (a) On the written request of a provider, the [The] commission shall, at no expense to the provider who requested the meeting, provide for an informal resolution meeting held under Section 531.102(g)(6) or 531.120(b) to be recorded. The recording of an informal resolution meeting shall be made available to the provider who requested the meeting. The commission may not record an informal resolution meeting unless the commission receives a written request from a provider under this subsection.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 531.1021(g) and except as provided by this section, an informal resolution meeting held under Section 531.102(g)(6) or 531.120(b) is confidential, and any information or materials obtained by the commission's office of inspector general, including the office's employees or the office's agents, during or in connection with an informal resolution meeting, including a recording made under Subsection (a), are privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552 or any other means of legal compulsion for release, including disclosure, discovery, or subpoena.