Bill Text: TX HB3739 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the medical transportation and care for certain inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-12 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB3739 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3739-Engrossed.html
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| By: Klick, Moody, Rose, Leach, Swanson | H.B. No. 3739 | |
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| relating to the medical transportation and care for certain inmates | ||
| in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 501, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 501.0515 and 501.071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.0515. PROCEDURES FOR TRANSPORTATION OF FEMALE | ||
| INMATES FOR MEDICAL CARE. The department shall establish | ||
| procedures to be used during the regularly scheduled transportation | ||
| of female inmates for nonemergency medical care to The University | ||
| of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston or another medical facility | ||
| that provides medical services for inmates. The procedures must | ||
| ensure that: | ||
| (1) any searches conducted are performed in an area | ||
| and manner that conforms with the requirements of the Prison Rape | ||
| Elimination Act of 2003 (34 U.S.C. Section 30301 et seq.) and any | ||
| regulation adopted under that Act; | ||
| (2) buses used to transport female inmates are | ||
| equipped with bathrooms and have an adequate supply of toilet paper | ||
| and feminine hygiene products as defined by Section 501.0675 for | ||
| the inmates being transported; | ||
| (3) female inmates receive sufficient food and | ||
| nutrition in accordance with medical or nutritional standards as | ||
| determined by the department; and | ||
| (4) facilities used to house female inmates overnight | ||
| while being transported have an adequate number of beds for the | ||
| inmates being transported. | ||
| Sec. 501.071. ACCESS TO TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH | ||
| SERVICES AND ON-SITE MEDICAL CARE. The department, in conjunction | ||
| with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the | ||
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, shall establish | ||
| procedures to increase opportunities and expand access to | ||
| telemedicine medical services and telehealth services, as those | ||
| terms are defined by Section 111.001, Occupations Code, and on-site | ||
| medical care for inmates, including on-site mobile care units that | ||
| provide diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, and other | ||
| appropriate mobile health services. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice shall establish the procedures | ||
| required by Sections 501.0515 and 501.071, Government Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 2024, the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice shall submit a report to the | ||
| legislature on the department's progress in increasing | ||
| opportunities and expanding access to telemedicine medical | ||
| services and telehealth services and on-site medical care for | ||
| inmates under Section 501.071, Government Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, including a summary of the procedures established under that | ||
| section and the number of inmates who received services or care | ||
| under those procedures. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
