Bill Text: TX HB1310 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an annual report on the costs to this state and political subdivisions of providing health care services to foreign patients.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-13 - Filed [HB1310 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1310-Introduced.html
| By: Hickland | H.B. No. 1310 | |
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| relating to an annual report on the costs to this state and | ||
| political subdivisions of providing health care services to foreign | ||
| patients. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 525, Government Code, as | ||
| effective April 1, 2025, is amended by adding Section 525.0304 to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 525.0304. ANNUAL REPORT ON COSTS OF PROVIDING HEALTH | ||
| CARE SERVICES TO FOREIGN PATIENTS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Emergency care" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 1301.155, Insurance Code. | ||
| (2) "Political subdivision" includes a municipality, | ||
| county, and hospital district in this state. | ||
| (b) The commission shall quarterly collect information on | ||
| the costs incurred by this state and political subdivisions for | ||
| providing at public hospitals inpatient health care services and | ||
| emergency care to uninsured patients who are not citizens or lawful | ||
| permanent residents of the United States. | ||
| (c) A public hospital providing inpatient health care | ||
| services or emergency care to a patient described by Subsection (b) | ||
| shall inform the patient that: | ||
| (1) the hospital must provide to the commission the | ||
| information described by Subsection (b); and | ||
| (2) the provision of the information does not affect | ||
| or limit the hospital's duty to provide the patient care under | ||
| federal law. | ||
| (d) Not later than January 1 of each year, the commission | ||
| shall submit to the governor and the legislature a written report | ||
| outlining the costs incurred by this state and political | ||
| subdivisions for providing inpatient health care services and | ||
| emergency care to patients described by Subsection (b), including | ||
| any recommendations regarding options available for this state to | ||
| seek reimbursement for those costs from the federal government. | ||
| (e) The executive commissioner shall adopt any rules | ||
| necessary to implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than October 1, 2025, the | ||
| executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission | ||
| shall adopt any necessary rules as required by Section 525.0304, | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| (b) The Health and Human Services Commission shall: | ||
| (1) begin collecting the information required by | ||
| Section 525.0304, Government Code, as added by this Act, not later | ||
| than November 1, 2025; and | ||
| (2) submit the first report required by Section | ||
| 525.0304, Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than | ||
| January 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
