Bill Text: TX SB2064 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the dissemination of patient information through a telemedicine, telehealth, or teledentistry service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Referred to Public Health [SB2064 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2064-Engrossed.html
By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 2064 |
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relating to the dissemination of patient information through a | ||
telemedicine, telehealth, or teledentistry service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 111, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 111.010 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 111.010. RESTRICTION ON SALE OR SHARING OF PATIENT | ||
INFORMATION. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Patient information" means any information | ||
relating to: | ||
(A) the past, present, or future physical or | ||
mental health condition of an individual; | ||
(B) the provision of health care to an | ||
individual; or | ||
(C) the past, present, or future payment for the | ||
provision of health care to an individual. | ||
(2) "Social media platform" has the meaning assigned | ||
by Section 120.001, Business & Commerce Code. | ||
(b) A physician, health professional, or dentist may not | ||
provide a telemedicine medical service, telehealth service, or | ||
teledentistry dental service, as applicable, through an entity that | ||
provides telecommunications or information technology to enable | ||
the service if the entity engages in the sale of the patient | ||
information of a patient of the physician, health professional, or | ||
dentist to or otherwise shares the patient information with a | ||
social media platform. | ||
(c) A physician, health professional, or dentist who | ||
knowingly violates this section is subject to disciplinary action | ||
by the applicable licensing entity, unless the physician, health | ||
professional, or dentist had received written assurances from the | ||
entity providing telecommunications or information technology that | ||
the entity appropriately safeguards patient information of the | ||
physician's, health professional's, or dentist's patients. | ||
(d) An entity that provides telecommunications or | ||
information technology to enable a telemedicine medical service, | ||
telehealth service, or teledentistry service may not sell or | ||
otherwise share patient information with a social media platform. | ||
A violation of this subsection may be enforced in the same manner as | ||
a violation of Chapter 181, Health and Safety Code, is enforced | ||
under Subchapter E of that chapter. | ||
(e) A licensing entity may adopt rules necessary to | ||
implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |