Bill Text: TX HB1420 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study on nurse-to-patient ratios for critical care patients in health care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-20 - Filed [HB1420 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1420-Introduced.html
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| By: Vo | H.B. No. 1420 | |
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| relating to a study on nurse-to-patient ratios for critical care | ||
| patients in health care facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Critical care" means medical care for an | ||
| individual who has a life-threatening injury or illness. | ||
| (3) "Direct care registered nurse" means a registered | ||
| nurse licensed by the Texas Board of Nursing to engage in | ||
| professional nursing under Chapter 301, Occupations Code, who has | ||
| accepted a direct, hands-on patient care assignment to implement | ||
| medical and nursing regimens and provide related clinical | ||
| supervision of patient care. | ||
| (b) The commission, in consultation with the United States | ||
| Department of Health and Human Services, shall conduct a study to | ||
| evaluate the outcomes and efficacy of limiting the number of | ||
| patients whose severity of illness requires critical care at a | ||
| health care facility and who are assigned to a direct care | ||
| registered nurse at any given time. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 1, 2026, the commission shall | ||
| prepare and submit to the governor and the legislature a written | ||
| report containing the results of the study and any recommendations | ||
| for legislative or other action. The commission shall post the | ||
| report on the commission's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
