Sec. 12.096.  PHYSICIAN REPORT.  (a)  A physician licensed to practice medicine in this state may inform the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas or the medical advisory board, orally or in writing, of the name, date of birth, and address of a patient older than 15 years of age whom the physician has diagnosed as having a disorder or disability specified in a rule of the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.
(b)  The release of information under this section is an exception to the patient-physician privilege requirements imposed under Section 159.002, Occupations Code.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 14.768, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.