Bill Text: TX HB871 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to use of telemedicine medical service by certain trauma facilities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB871 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB871-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 871 | ||
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| relating to use of telemedicine medical service by certain trauma | ||
| facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 773, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 773.1151 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 773.1151. USE OF TELEMEDICINE MEDICAL SERVICE BY | ||
| CERTAIN TRAUMA FACILITIES. (a) In this section, "telemedicine | ||
| medical service" has the meaning assigned by Section 111.001, | ||
| Occupations Code. | ||
| (b) A health care facility located in a county with a | ||
| population of less than 30,000 may satisfy a Level IV trauma | ||
| facility designation requirement relating to physicians through | ||
| the use of telemedicine medical service in which an on-call | ||
| physician who has special competence in the care of critically | ||
| injured patients provides patient assessment, diagnosis, | ||
| consultation, or treatment or transfers medical data to a | ||
| physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician | ||
| assistant located at the facility. | ||
| (c) In establishing the requirements for designating a | ||
| facility as a Level IV trauma facility, the executive commissioner | ||
| may not adopt rules that: | ||
| (1) require the physical presence or physical | ||
| availability of a physician who has special competence in the care | ||
| of critically injured patients; or | ||
| (2) prohibit the use of telemedicine medical service | ||
| that meets the requirements of Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. The executive commissioner of the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement Section | ||
| 773.1151, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, not later | ||
| than December 1, 2019. | ||
| SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 773.1151, Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act, a health care facility located in | ||
| a county with a population of less than 30,000 may use telemedicine | ||
| medical service to satisfy a Level IV trauma facility designation | ||
| requirement only on or after January 1, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 871 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 871 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 16, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
