Bill Text: TX HB1566 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of counties to appoint, contract for, or employ physicians, dentists, or other health care providers for county jails.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1566-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1566 | ||
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| relating to the authority of counties to appoint, contract for, or | ||
| employ physicians, dentists, or other health care providers for | ||
| county jails. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 351, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 351.045 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 351.045. EMPLOYMENT OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. (a) The | ||
| commissioners court of a county may appoint, contract for, or | ||
| employ licensed physicians, dentists, or other health care | ||
| providers to provide health care services to inmates in the custody | ||
| of the sheriff. | ||
| (b) This section may not be construed as authorizing a | ||
| commissioners court to supervise or control the practice of | ||
| medicine as prohibited by Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code, or | ||
| to supervise or control the practice of dentistry as prohibited by | ||
| Subtitle D, Title 3, Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1566 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 115, Nays 33, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1566 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
