Bill Text: TX SB1397 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to regional protocols and processes for patient transfers and related services within the geographic area served by certain trauma service area regional advisory councils.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective immediately [SB1397 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1397-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1397 |
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relating to regional protocols and processes for patient transfers | ||
and related services within the geographic area served by certain | ||
trauma service area regional advisory councils. | ||
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 773.1141 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 773.1141. INFORMATION, GUIDELINES, AND PROTOCOLS | ||
RELATED TO CERTAIN PATIENT TRANSFERS AND RELATED SERVICES. (a) | ||
This section applies only to a trauma service area regional | ||
advisory council serving a geographic area that includes: | ||
(1) at least one county located on the international | ||
border of this state; and | ||
(2) at least one county adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
(b) For each trauma service area regional advisory council to | ||
which this section applies, the executive commissioner by rule | ||
shall: | ||
(1) require the council to create an advisory committee | ||
composed of equally represented designated trauma hospital system | ||
members located within the geographic boundaries of the council or | ||
require the council to direct an existing advisory committee of the | ||
council established for a purpose similar to that described by this | ||
subsection to: | ||
(A) develop guidelines for patient transfers; and | ||
(B) periodically review patient transfers to | ||
ensure compliance with applicable guidelines; | ||
(2) for the purpose of ensuring that patients located | ||
in the council's geographic boundaries receive health care at the | ||
health care facility closest to and most appropriate for the | ||
patients, require the council to develop regional protocols and | ||
processes to assist the council in managing the dispatch, triage, | ||
transport, and transfer of patients; and | ||
(3) require each hospital and emergency medical | ||
services provider operating within the council's geographic | ||
boundaries to collect and report to the council data on patients | ||
transferred outside the council's geographic boundaries. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than April 1, 2022, the executive | ||
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall | ||
adopt the rules required by Section 773.1141, Health and Safety | ||
Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all 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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1397 passed the Senate on | ||
April 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1397 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 113, | ||
Nays 34, two present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |