Bill Text: TX SB23 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to applicants for medical staff membership or privileges who practice at facilities where abortions are performed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-07-03 - Filed [SB23 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB23-Introduced.html
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By: Uresti | S.B. No. 23 |
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relating to applicants for medical staff membership or privileges | ||
who practice at facilities where abortions are performed. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 241.101, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows: | ||
(f-1) An applicant for medical staff membership or | ||
privileges may not be denied membership or privileges on the ground | ||
that the applicant practices at a facility where abortions are | ||
performed. A hospital's credentials committee may not consider | ||
whether abortions are performed at a facility at which an applicant | ||
practices in making a decision whether to grant or refuse medical | ||
staff membership or privileges. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 241.101(f-1), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
added by this Act, applies only to an application for medical staff | ||
membership or privileges submitted on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. An application submitted before the effective date of | ||
this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the | ||
application was submitted, and the former law is continued for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |