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4-1                 [(7)]  the number of fractures, reported memory losses,
4-2     incidents of apnea, and cardiac arrests without death;
4-3                 (6) [(8)]  autopsy findings if death followed within 14
4-4     days after the date of the administration of the therapy; and
4-5                 (7) [(9)]  any other information required by the
4-6     department.
4-7           SECTION 5.  Section 578.008(a), Health and Safety Code, is
4-8     amended to read as follows:
4-9           (a)  The department shall use the information received under
4-10     Section 578.007 to analyze, audit, and
4-11     monitor the use of psychosurgery,
4-12     pre-frontal sonic sound treatment, or any other convulsive or
4-13     coma-producing therapy administered to treat mental illness.
4-14           SECTION 6.  Sections 578.003, 578.004, 578.005, and 578.006,
4-15     Health and Safety Code, are repealed.
4-16           SECTION 7.  (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
4-17     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
4-18     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
4-19     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
4-20     before that date.
4-21           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
4-22     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
4-23     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
4-24           SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
4-25           SECTION 9.  The importance of this legislation and the
4-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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