Bill Text: TX HB3915 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to services provided by freestanding emergency medical care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Health [HB3915 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3915-Introduced.html
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By: Raney | H.B. No. 3915 |
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relating to services provided by freestanding emergency medical | ||
care facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 254.001(1) and (5), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Acute care services" means outpatient medical | ||
services, including radiology services, laboratory services, | ||
immunization services, and other non-emergent physician services | ||
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(5) "Freestanding emergency medical care facility" | ||
means a facility, structurally separate and distinct from a | ||
hospital, that receives an individual and provides: | ||
(A) emergency care, as defined by Subdivision | ||
(2); and | ||
(B) acute care services, as defined by | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 254, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 254.002 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 254.002. REFERENCE IN LAW. A reference in this chapter | ||
to "department" means the Health and Human Services Commission. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 254.1555, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) A facility that provides acute care services may not | ||
charge an emergency facility fee for providing the services. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |