By: Schwertner S.B. No. 380
(In the Senate - Filed February 5, 2013; February 13, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
Services; March 13, 2013, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 13, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the recording of an informal settlement conference to
resolve a complaint to the Texas Medical Board against a physician.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (i), Section 164.003, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(i) On request by a physician under review, the board shall
make a recording of the informal settlement conference proceeding.
The recording is a part of the investigative file and may not be
released to a third party unless authorized under this subtitle. On
request of the physician, the board shall release the recording to
the physician. The board may charge the physician a fee to cover
the cost of recording the proceeding.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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