Bill Text: TX SB299 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to health care services provided at a hospital by a physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical staff and the hospital's liability for health care services provided by such a physician.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Left pending in committee [SB299 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB299-Introduced.html
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| By: Hall | S.B. No. 299 | |
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| relating to health care services provided at a hospital by a | ||
| physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical staff and | ||
| the hospital's liability for health care services provided by such | ||
| a physician. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 241, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 241.1013 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 241.1013. SERVICES PROVIDED BY PHYSICIAN NOT ON | ||
| MEDICAL STAFF; LIMIT ON HOSPITAL LIABILITY. (a) A hospital shall | ||
| allow a physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical | ||
| staff to provide care or treatment to a patient at the hospital at | ||
| the patient's request. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a hospital is not liable | ||
| to a patient or another person for damages resulting from the care | ||
| or treatment provided to the patient at the hospital by a physician | ||
| described by Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 241.1013(b), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on | ||
| or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
