Bill Text: TX HB3442 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to complaints filed with the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-08 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3442 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3442-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 3442

AN ACT
relating to complaints filed with the State Board of Veterinary
Medical Examiners.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 801.207, Occupations Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), each [Each]
complaint, investigation file and record, and other investigation
report and all other investigative information in the possession of
or received or gathered by the board or the board's employees or
agents relating to a license holder, an application for license, or
a criminal investigation or proceeding is privileged and
confidential and is not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other
means of legal compulsion for release to anyone other than the board
or the board's employees or agents involved in discipline of a
license holder.
(b-1) Not later than the 14th day before the date of an
informal proceeding under Section 801.408, the board shall provide
to the license holder who is the subject of the complaint a copy of
the record of any review conducted under Section 801.2055 of a
complaint requiring medical expertise. The board shall redact the
name of each veterinarian who conducted the review.
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), the [The] board
shall protect the identity of a complainant to the extent possible.
SECTION 2. Section 801.207, Occupations Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a complaint filed with the State Board of
Veterinary Medical Examiners on or after the effective date of this
Act. A complaint filed with the board before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the complaint
was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3442 was passed by the House on April
23, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 3442 on May 24, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3442 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor