Bill Text: TX HB284 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to authorization for certain health care facilities to secure residents with wheelchair self-release seat belts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB284 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB284-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorization for certain health care facilities to secure residents with wheelchair self-release seat belts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB284 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB284-Comm_Sub.html
By: Springer (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) | H.B. No. 284 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 2017; | ||
April 19, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Health & | ||
Human Services; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to authorization for certain health care facilities to | ||
secure residents with wheelchair self-release seat belts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 322, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 322.0515 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 322.0515. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF WHEELCHAIR | ||
SELF-RELEASE SEAT BELT. Notwithstanding Section 322.051, a | ||
facility shall allow a resident to use a wheelchair self-release | ||
seat belt while the resident is in the resident's wheelchair if: | ||
(1) the resident demonstrates the ability to release | ||
and fasten the seat belt without assistance; | ||
(2) the use of the wheelchair self-release seat belt | ||
complies with the resident's plan of care; and | ||
(3) the facility receives written authorization | ||
signed by the resident or the resident's legal guardian for the | ||
resident to use the wheelchair self-release seat belt. | ||
SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act but not later than January 1, 2018, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt rules necessary to implement this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 322.0515, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies only to the use of a wheelchair | ||
self-release seat belt occurring on or after January 1, 2018. Use | ||
of a wheelchair self-release seat belt occurring before that date | ||
is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective | ||
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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