Bill Text: TX HB2854 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the required approval of certain hospital visits as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision for certain releasees and to the hospital's liability for damages resulting from those visits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-14 - Filed [HB2854 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2854-Introduced.html
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| By: Anchía | H.B. No. 2854 | |
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| relating to the required approval of certain hospital visits as a | ||
| condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision for | ||
| certain releasees and to the hospital's liability for damages | ||
| resulting from those visits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the Pokuaa-Flowers Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 508, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 508.193 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 508.193. REQUIRED APPROVAL OF CERTAIN HOSPITAL VISITS. | ||
| (a) A parole panel that requires a releasee serving a sentence for | ||
| an offense listed in Article 42A.054(a), Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, or for which the judgment contains an affirmative | ||
| finding under Article 42A.054(c) or (d), Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, to submit to electronic monitoring as a condition of | ||
| release on parole or to mandatory supervision shall, as an | ||
| additional condition of release, prohibit the releasee from | ||
| visiting a general hospital, as defined by Section 241.003, Health | ||
| and Safety Code, for a purpose other than to receive medical | ||
| treatment, as defined by Section 313.002, Health and Safety Code, | ||
| including emergency medical care, unless the parole officer | ||
| supervising the releasee approves the releasee's request to visit | ||
| the hospital prior to the visit. | ||
| (b) A releasee's request to visit a general hospital must | ||
| specify the date and time of the intended visit and the reason for | ||
| the visit. | ||
| (c) A parole officer who approves a visit under Subsection | ||
| (a) shall promptly notify the chief law enforcement officer for the | ||
| general hospital, or a local law enforcement agency if the general | ||
| hospital does not employ any peace officers, of the date and time of | ||
| the releasee's intended visit. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding any other law, a general hospital is not | ||
| liable to a patient or another person for damages resulting from a | ||
| visit by a releasee described by Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 508.193, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a person who is released on parole or to | ||
| mandatory supervision on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
| person who is released on parole or to mandatory supervision before | ||
| the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at | ||
| the time of release, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
