Bill Text: TX HB3582 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the awarding of grants to initiate, expand, maintain, and improve emergency medical services and to support medical systems and facilities that provide trauma care.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3582 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3582-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Guerra, Guillen H.B. No. 3582

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the awarding of grants to initiate, expand, maintain,
and improve emergency medical services and to support medical
systems and facilities that provide trauma care.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 3. Section 773.119(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended as follows:
(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish
eligibility criteria for awarding the grants. The rules must
require the department to consider:
(1) the need of an area for the provision of emergency
medical services or trauma care and the extent to which the grant
would meet the identified need;
(2) the availability of personnel and training
programs;
(3) the availability of other funding sources;
(4) the assurance of providing quality services;
(5) the use or acquisition of helicopters for
emergency medical evacuation; [and]
(6) the development or existence of an emergency
medical services system; and
(7) the development of a centralized system for the
dispatch, triage, transport, and transfer of patients, including
the use or acquisition of technology, to ensure coordinated patient
transports and transfers, the efficient utilization of trauma care
and emergency medical services.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all 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, 2021.