Bill Text: TX SB183 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 183 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to emergency medical services subscription programs and reciprocity agreements between certain air ambulance companies operating a subscription program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-24 - Referred to Insurance [SB183 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-SB183-Introduced.html

	87R2796 JG-D

	By: Perry	S.B. No. 183



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to emergency medical services subscription programs and
	reciprocity agreements between certain air ambulance companies
	operating a subscription program.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 773.011, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by amending Subsections (b) and (e) and adding Subsection
	(d-1) to read as follows:
	(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules
	establishing minimum standards for the creation and operation of a
	subscription program. The rules must:
	(1) ensure the protection of public health and safety;
	and
	(2) for an air ambulance subscription program:
	(A) ensure compliance with federal laws and rules
	related to air ambulance subscription program services; and
	(B) establish minimum standards and objectives
	for the delivery of air ambulance emergency medical services
	provided in accordance with a reciprocity agreement entered into
	under Subsection (d-1).
	(d-1) To ensure maximum geographic coverage for patients
	covered under an air ambulance subscription program, an air
	ambulance company that operates a subscription program in a service
	delivery area shall, in accordance with executive commissioner
	rules, enter into a reciprocity agreement with each other air
	ambulance company that operates a subscription program in that
	area.
	(e) The Insurance Code does not apply to a subscription
	program established or a reciprocity agreement entered into under
	this section.
	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 necessary to implement
	Section 773.011, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2022.