Amend CSHB 9 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 34.009(d), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d)  Information is not confidential under this section if the information is general information that cannot be connected with any specific individual, case, or health care provider, such as:

(1)  total expenditures made for specified purposes;

(2)  the number of families served by particular health care providers or agencies;

(3)  aggregated data on social and economic conditions;

(4)  medical data and information related to health care services that do not include any identifying information relating to a patient or the patient's family; [and]

(5)  an abstract concerning a maternal death that does not include identifying information relating to a patient, the patient's family, or a health care provider;

(7)  other statistical information.