Bill Text: TX SB1255 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the employment of physicians by certain municipal hospital authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1255 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1255-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the employment of physicians by certain municipal hospital authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1255 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1255-Introduced.html
82R9603 ALB-D | ||
By: Estes | S.B. No. 1255 |
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relating to the employment of physicians and other staff by certain | ||
municipal hospital authorities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 262.023(b), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) The board may delegate to the manager or executive | ||
director the authority to manage the hospital and to employ and | ||
discharge employees other than physicians hired in accordance with | ||
Section 262.0235. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 262, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 262.0235 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 262.0235. EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICIANS AND STAFF. (a) The | ||
board of a hospital authority created by the governing body of a | ||
municipality with a population of not more than 10,000 may employ | ||
physicians, technicians, nurses, other health care providers, | ||
fiscal agents, accountants, and other necessary employees. | ||
(b) This section may not be construed as authorizing the | ||
board to supervise or control the practice of medicine, as | ||
prohibited by Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |