Bill Text: TX SB1206 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to medical care and public health services provided by a health care professional in a licensed freestanding emergency medical care facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-24 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1206 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1206-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to medical care and public health services provided by a health care professional in a licensed freestanding emergency medical care facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-24 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1206 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1206-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Deuell | S.B. No. 1206 | |
(Zerwas) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1206: No. |
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relating to medical care and public health services provided by a | ||
health care professional in a licensed freestanding emergency | ||
medical care facility. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 254, Health and Safety | ||
Code, as added by Chapter 1273 (H.B. 1357), Acts of the 81st | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, is amended by adding Section | ||
254.002 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 254.002. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER; LIMITATIONS ON | ||
FACILITY FEES AND RULEMAKING AUTHORITY. (a) This chapter may not | ||
be construed as prohibiting a licensed health care professional | ||
from providing in a freestanding emergency medical care facility | ||
licensed under this chapter medical care provided at the time | ||
emergency care is provided, or public health services, that are | ||
within the scope of the health care professional's license and that | ||
are not required to be provided in another facility under other law. | ||
The health care professional may charge a facility fee for the | ||
medical care or public health service provided to a patient only if | ||
the care or service is provided: | ||
(1) as part of the emergency care provided to the | ||
patient; or | ||
(2) at the time nonrelated emergency care is provided | ||
to the patient. | ||
(b) In adopting rules under Section 254.151(a), the | ||
executive commissioner may not adopt a rule that conflicts with | ||
Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the 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, 2011. |