Bill Text: TX HB4225 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to emergency generators or other power sources in end stage renal disease facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Public Health [HB4225 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4225-Introduced.html
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By: Bucy | H.B. No. 4225 |
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relating to emergency generators or other power sources in end | ||
stage renal disease facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 251, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 251.016 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 251.016. EMERGENCY GENERATOR OR OTHER POWER SOURCE. | ||
Each end stage renal disease facility licensed under this chapter | ||
shall ensure the facility is equipped with an operational emergency | ||
generator or comparable emergency power source and a sufficient | ||
amount of fuel to operate the generator or power source for a | ||
minimum of 24 hours during a power outage. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
Section 251.016, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 251.016, Health and Safety | ||
Code, as added by this Act, an end stage renal disease facility is | ||
not required to comply with that section until March 1, 2022. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |