Bill Text: TX SB1754 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to advertising by certain licensed freestanding emergency medical care facilities; providing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB1754 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1754-Introduced.html
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By: Campbell | S.B. No. 1754 |
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relating to advertising by certain licensed freestanding emergency | ||
medical care facilities; providing an administrative penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 254, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter F to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER F. NOTICE OF CHARGES | ||
Sec. 254.251. NOTICE. A facility licensed under this | ||
chapter that charges for its services the usual and customary rate | ||
charged for the same service by a hospital emergency room in the | ||
same region of the state or located in a region of the state with | ||
comparable rates for emergency health care services shall post | ||
notice in a conspicuous place in the facility to prospective | ||
patients that the facility charges rates comparable to a hospital | ||
emergency room. | ||
Sec. 254.252. RULES. The executive commissioner of the | ||
Health and Human Services Commission shall adopt rules for the | ||
notice described by Section 254.251. | ||
Sec. 254.253. ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY. The commissioner of | ||
health may assess an administrative penalty under Section 254.205 | ||
against a facility that violates this subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the executive commissioner of the Health and Human | ||
Services Commission shall adopt rules relating to the notice | ||
required under Subchapter F, Chapter 254, Health and Safety Code, | ||
as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |