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iUSTIN — Doctors complained
lerday that the 1977 legislature
inot do enough to alleviate rising
Ipractice insurance costs.
A compromise malpractice bill
in approval, 141-1 House, and.
Senate, only minutes before
Monday midnight deadline that
dthe 140-day session.
Texas Medical Association
ident, Dr. John M. Smith of
Antonio, said doctors remain
Jitisfied.
he bill has some good
ovisions but many important
Indments by the Texas Senate
I recommendations of the state’s
malpractice study commission are
ignored in the bill,” Smith said.
The legislation, which now goes
to the governor, calls for a $500, (X)0
ceiling on awards for non-medical
losses to patients injured by mal
practice.
The compromise drawn up by
Rep. Tom Uher, (D-Bay City), dis
carded a provision senators in
cluded in their bill to limit awards
for pain and suffering in malpractice
cases to $100,000.
Uher also dropped Senate
provisions reducing the size of mal
practice awards if the patient re
ceived compensation from other
sources such as health insurance
and allowing doctors to pay mal
practice judgments in installments.
“With many important provisions
left out, the bill will not do an
adequate job attacking the medical
malpractice insurance crisis, ” Smith
said.
Sen. Ray Farabee, (D-Wichita
Falls), Senate sponsor of doctor-
backed malpractice legislation, re
fused to offer the compromise bill to
senators.
Sen. Don Adams, (D-Jasper),
won Senate approval of the mea
sure, saying “I think it is going to
leave this state better than it is to
day.”
Adams said he believes the corn-
zed the lales
:ive in histoiv
id his nameii
for the failure
tility taxes.
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district judge
Ithy Baytown
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Briscoe s priorities
nacted by legislature
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AUSTIN — Gov. Dolph Briscoe
id yesterday the 1977 Texas Legis-
re, which adjourned Monday,
roved legislation dealing with
three of his top four priorities.
The governor said he had listed
public education, public health,
transportation and crime control as
his four major priorities when he ad-
lexico constructs
npeline to U.S.
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the federal ? EXIC0 f ITY ~ P^roleos
j it Kicanos, the state petroleum
. J ^ liopoly, will build a 746-mile-long
„ on „ r ispipenne in order to boost exports
11 t0CanCer the United States.
In making the announcement of
i$970 million project, Pemex di-
lor general Jorge Diaz Serrano
B construction of the pipeline
lid begin soon and that it would
e two years to complete,
ne Center ; as should start flowing to the
bbean and I. by 1979, he said,
hurricane \y e hope to export one bil ion
> coas t f° r ic feet daily by 1979, when the
: stage of the pipeline will be
Bipleted,” Diaz Serrano said at a
|'S conference.
nd that’s not all, by the end of
administration in 1982, this fig-
should double,” he said,
iaz Serrano said that at current
es this operation should give
ico $2.5 million in foreign earn-
every day by 1982.
he 48-inch diameter pipeline
originate in the nation’s richest
lllelds, the Tabasco-Chiapas zone
joutheastern Mexico, and follow a
ite close to the Gulf of Mexico
il reaching Reynosa, across the
der from McAllen, Tex.
From there and from an inter-
Jdiate point in Tampico, on the
If coast, several lines will be con
ing mantis,
ig efforts of
had killed
ummed up
lion.
t
ik,” an urv
- reporting
diller filed
t rayed him
ctly on two
o whether
nected with Monterrey and various
U.S. border cities, he said.
“We have already contacted sev
eral U.S. firms to discuss purchase
and distribution of the fuel,” Diaz
Serrano said.
“The idea to build the pipeline,
which will be constructed with
foreign capital, originated after gas
production in that area surpassed
our early estimates, plus the discov
ery of new deposits,” the official
said.
Original estimates called for 1,000
to 1,200 cubic feet for each barrel of
crude.
“However we have found new
wells which produce up to 7,000
cubic feet per barrel,” he said.
Most of this gas is used in pet
rochemical plants but a great deal of
it is simply burned off, Diaz Serrano
outlined.
“We no longer want to continue
burning the gas. Because of this, we
have postponed drilling where huge
amounts of gas have been found.”
Until last year, Mexico bought gas
from the U.S. But early this year, it
sold large quantities to the U.S. be
cause of shortages caused by a harsh
winter.
Mexico’s proven oil reserves sur
pass 11 billion barrels, but potential
resources call for more than 60 bil
lion.
promise legislation will mitigate
against rising costs of malpractice
insurance for doctors without
damaging the rights of patients who
sue over doctors’ negligent treat
ment.
Adams was the third sponsor of
the malpractice bill in the Senate.
Sen. A. R. Schwartz, (D-
Galveston), originally sponsored a
House-passed malpractice bill but
disowned the measure after doctors
won changes considered unaccept
able by trial lawyers.
Bitter disputes between doctors
and trial lawyers marked the
months of deliberations over mal
practice legislation and came close
to stopping any legislation.
dressed the legislature in January.
“I did not envision that my rec
ommendations on any of these sub
jects would be adopted to the letter.
But I can say with appreciation that
three out of four of these top
priorities I submitted have been
substantially enacted into law,” he
said.
Briscoe noted the legislature ap
proved a medical malpractice bill
which dealt with a major public
health problem, approved a $528
million highway funding bill to aid
transportation, and adopted “the
most comprehensive criminal justice
and rehabilitation program ever
enacted.
He disputed criticism that the
lawmakers jeopardized the public
school finance bill by allocating $528
million to highways before consider
ing education funding.
“The issue has not been whether
we should have good highways or
good schools,” he said. “The true
issue is whether Texas state govern
ment is responsible and farsighted
enough to maintain a system of qual
ity public education and a system of
quality public transportation, both of
which are vital to our standard of
living and our future prosperity. ”
Briscoe also noted this was the
third consecutive session in which
the legislature has not raised state
taxes.
“I know of no other state in the
union which has compiled a record
equal to that, and I am going to do
my part to keep the record going,”
he said.
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