Bill Text: TX HB2269 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the civil liability of a hospital with a children's isolation unit and of certain hospital employees.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2269 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2269-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Schofield | H.B. No. 2269 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2269: | |||
| By: Schofield | C.S.H.B. No. 2269 | ||
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| relating to the civil liability of a hospital with a children's | ||
| isolation unit and of certain hospital employees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subchapter K to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER K. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF HOSPITALS WITH | ||
| CHILDREN'S ISOLATION UNIT | ||
| Sec. 241.301. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "children's | ||
| isolation unit" means an isolation unit in a hospital licensed | ||
| under this chapter that is designed to provide health care services | ||
| to children with highly contagious infectious diseases. | ||
| Sec. 241.302. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY OF HOSPITAL | ||
| WITH CHILDREN'S ISOLATION UNIT. A hospital with a children's | ||
| isolation unit that has instituted isolation protocols and a | ||
| physician or employee of that hospital are not liable for any claim, | ||
| damage, or loss arising from the provision of health care services | ||
| in the children's isolation unit to children with highly contagious | ||
| diseases, unless the act or omission proximately causing the claim, | ||
| damage, or loss constitutes gross negligence or wilful misconduct. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
