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2005 SESSION

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HB 1709 Patient information; prohibits lawyer from obtaining information from practitioner's employers, etc.

Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Patient information; prohibition on communication.  Prohibits lawyers from obtaining, in connection with litigation, information on a patient from a practitioner's employers, partners, agents, servants, employees, co-employees, or others for whom, at law, the practitioner is or may be liable, or who, at law, are or may be liable for the practitioner's acts or omissions. Under current law, the prohibition applies only to the practitioner himself.

FULL TEXT

• 12/27/04  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 056787372  pdf

HISTORY

• 12/27/04  House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 056787372
• 12/27/04  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/14/05  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: Civil Law
• 01/21/05  House: Stricken from docket by C. J. (20-Y 0-N)