Bill Text: TX HB3435 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the process by which a hospital makes certain determinations regarding medical staff privileges.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-21 - Referred to Public Health [HB3435 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3435-Introduced.html
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| By: Lopez of Cameron | H.B. No. 3435 | |
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| relating to the process by which a hospital makes certain | ||
| determinations regarding medical staff privileges. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 241.101, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c-1) and amending Subsection (g) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) The process used to determine whether to grant or deny | ||
| medical staff privileges or to renew or modify medical staff | ||
| privileges must be an objective process during which criteria | ||
| adopted by the hospital for that purpose are applied in a consistent | ||
| manner to each person requesting medical staff privileges or the | ||
| renewal or modification of medical staff privileges. | ||
| (g) A hospital's [ |
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| including requirements contained in the hospital's bylaws or any | ||
| other hospital policy, may require a physician, podiatrist, or | ||
| dentist to document the person's current clinical competency and | ||
| professional training and experience in the medical procedures for | ||
| which privileges are requested. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
